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MEMOEIAL ADDRESSES 



LIFE AND CHARACTER 



LEWIS Y. BOGY, 



(A SENATOR FROM MISSOURI,) 



DELIVERED IN THE 



SENATE JANUARY 16, 1878, 



AND IN THE 



HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES JANUARY 23, 1878. 



rUBLISIIKD BY OKDEK OF CONGRESS. 



^J , ^. FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION, 



WASHINGTON: 

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 

1878. 



PROCEEDINGS 



SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. 






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ANNOUNCEMENT. 



Mr. COCKRELL. Mr. President, according to notice previ- 
ously given, it now becomes my sad duty formally to announce to 
the Senate the death of my late colleague, Hon. Lewis Vitai. 
Bogy, and to ask of the Senate the present consideration of the 
following resolutions as a mark of respect to his memory : 

Resolved, That the Senate has received with profound sorrow the announcement 
of the death of Hon. Lewis V. Bogy, late a Senator of the United States from the 
State of Missouri. 

Resolved, That, as a marli of respect to the memory of Hon. Lewis V. Bogy, the 
business of the Senate be now suspended, that his former associates may pay proper 
tribute to his public and private virtues. 

Resolved, That, as a further mark of respect for the memory of the deceased, the 
members of tlie Senate will wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days. 

Ordered, That the Secretary communicate these resolutions to the House of Rep- 
resentatives. 



The resolutions were unanimously agreed to. 



ADDRESSES 



DEATH OF LEWIS V. BOGY. 



Address of Mr. Cockrell, of Missouri. 

INIr. Peesident : At eleven o'clock in the forenoon of September 
20, 1877, at his family residence, in the city of Saint Louis, sur- 
rounded by his loving, weeping family and devoted, grief-stricken 
friends, Hon. Lewis Vital Bogy, in the sixty-fifth year of his 
age, departed this life, calmly, painlessly, and in the possession of 
all his faculties, thus yielding another victory to death, the con- 
quering hero of the human family. 

Again is manifested infallible proof of the truth of the divinely 
inspired words, " It is appointed unto men once to die." 

Lewis Vital Bogy was born on the 9th day of April, in the 
year 1813, in Sainte Genevieve, now in Sainte Genevieve County, 
Missouri, and was a descendant of the early French pioneers who 
came to that region of country when it belonged to France. 

His father, Joseph Bogy, was born in Kaskaskia, Illinois, and 
removed to the then JNIissouri Territory in 1805, and settled in 
Sainte Genevieve, then an important town, and married INIarie 
Beauvais, the daughter of Vital Beauvais, and mother of Lewis 
Vital Bogy. 



Mr. Joseph Bogy was private secretary to Governor Morales 
under the Spanish dominion over that country, and when Missouri 
was organized as a Territory became a member of the territorial 
Legislature, and after Missouri was admitted as a State in the 
Union became a member of tlie State Legislature and filled many 
other positions of trust and confidence. 

In the early youth of Lewis V. Bogy the French was the lan- 
guage spoken by all the inhabitants of his town, and educational 
advantages were very limited. Very few persons of this day, born 
and reared under our present well-organized and widely-spread 
system of public schools, academies, colleges and universities every- 
Avhere accessible, can realize or appreciate the many obstacles and 
inconveniences which then beset the pathway and frustrated the 
efforts of the youth to obtain an education. Under innumerable 
difficulties and disadvantages Leavis V. Bogy prosecuted his edu- 
cation in such schools as were then accessible in that new country, 
manifesting that indomitable will and perseverance which yield to 
no obstacles however formidable. About 1822 he attended a school 
in his native town taught by John D. Grafton, from Connecticut. 
He was then sent to a Catholic school in Perryville, now in Perry 
County, Missouri, taught by a Swiss, where he remained until 
attacked by a "white swelling" which confined him to his bed for 
some eighteen months. He was skillfully treated by Dr. Lewis F. 
Linn, afterward United States Senator from Missouri, who died on 
October 31, 1843, while Senator. Dr. Linn was a Senator in the 
same line or class in which Mr. Bogy afterward became a Senator. 

During this confinement he read constantly, and thus made rapid 
progress. He was afterward a clerk in a store at a salary of $200 
per year, under a contract to take out in trade one-half of that 
salary. By frugality in his habits and economy in expenditure he 



LIFE AND CIIARACTER OF LEWIS V. BOGY. d 

managed to purchase books and study elementary law, and begin 
the study of Latin. On January 16, 1832, a young man, with 
limited education and means, he left his home under charge of Mr. 
William Shannon, an old friend of his father, to go to Kaskaskia, 
Illinois, to read law in the office of the late Judge Nathaniel Pope, 
judge of the United States district court. 

At or prior to this time he had formed the determination to con- 
tinue the study of law and to return to liis native State to practice 
and to qualify himself to become United States Senator from his 
native State, and to work for this position until he became sixty 
years old. This determination was communicated to his mother in 
a letter dated January 16, 1832. He lived to attain the goal of 
his laudable ambition a few months before the end of his sixtieth 
year. He studied law under Judge Pope till May, 1832. He 
then volunteered as a private soldier in the war with the Indians, 
known as the Black Hawk war, and participated in two hotly con- 
tested engagements. Having served faithfully and gallantly to the 
close of that war, he returned to Kaskaskia and continued his 
study of law. In 1833 he became a student in the law school at 
Lexington, Kentucky, from which he graduated in 1835, with the 
highest encomiums, having devoted himself to his studies with the 
most assiduous attention. 

On April 1, 1835, he located in Saint Louis and opened a law 
office and began his professional career. 

By diligent and close attention to business, and earnest applica- 
tion to study, he soon won distinction and eminence in his profes- 
sion and secured a lucrative practice. 

In 1840 he was elected a member of the General Assembly of 
the State of Missouri, and, although among the youngest members, 
if not the youngest, he was an efficient and useful member and 



10 ADDRESS OF MR. COCKRELL ON THE 

served with distinction. In 1849, having acquired large means by 
his profession, he removed to his native county, Sainte Genevieve, 
and was the anti-Benton democratic candidate for the Legislature 
and was defeated. 

Colonel Benton, having failed to secure his re-election to the 
United States Senate at the next congressional election in 1852, 
announced himself a candidate for Representative in Congress. 
Lewis V. Bogy was nominated as his opponent, and although 
defeated acquired prestige from his contest with the great Senator, 
and at the succeeding election in 1854 was elected a member of the 
General Assembly from his native county and served with marked 
ability and distinction. In 1863, having returned to Saint Louis, 
he Avas the democratic candidate for Congress against the late Senator 
Francis P. Blair, jr., and Samuel Knox, and was defeated. 

In 1867 he was appointed by the late President. Andrew Johnson 
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and discharged the duties Avith signal 
ability and fidelity for about six months, when, not being confirmed 
l)y the Senate, he retired from the office. 

In 1873 he became a candidate for the United States Senate, and 
having received the caucus nomination by a vote of 64 to 57 for 
the late distinguished Senator, General Frank P. Blair, was elected 
over Hon. John B. Henderson, late United States Senator, by a 
majority of 59 votes, and became the successor of General Blair in 
(his body for the term from March 4, 1873, to March 3, 1879. 
His career as a Senator in this body is familiar to most of the present 
Senators. 

Colonel Bogy during his long career occupied a very conspicuous 
position among the public men of his State, and in addition to the 
political offices named occupied many important positions of trust 
and honor. He was president of the Saint Louis and Iron Mount- 



LIFE AND CHARACTER OF LEWIS V. BOGY. 11 

ain Railroad, president of the Exchange Bank of Saint Louis, 
commissioner of public schools, member of the city council of Saint 
Louis, and president of the city council, and, as such, acting mayor 
in the absence of the mayor. 

The survivors of his family are his wife, Mrs. Pelagic Pratt 
Bogy, daughter of the late General Bernard Pratt; his son, Joseph 
Bogy, and his daughter, Mrs. Josephine Noonan. 

The disease which terminated fatally first manifested itself in this 
city during the last session of the Forty-fourth Congress, and the 
executive session of the Senate, called upon its close, and was of the 
character of a low malarial fever. After the adjournment of the 
Senate in March, 1877, he returned to his home and continued to 
grow worse. In August, 1877, he visited Colorado with the hope 
of relief; failing, he returned to Saint Louis and grew steadily 
weaker until he was forced to confinement in bed. A few days 
prior to his death the rupture of an abscess of the under or posterior 
surface of the liver occurred, and for a short time he seemed to 
grow better when a marked change occurred indicating the rapid 
approach of death. 

Father Tallon, of Saint Laurence O'Toole's church, administered 
to him the last sacraments of the Catholic Church, of which he was 
an earnest member, and about 10 o'clock he went to sleep, and at 
11 o'clock, without a sign of pain he passed away as quietly and 
calmly as if still sleeping. 

The last sad rites were performed on September 22, 1877, and 
his body was then interred in Calvary cemetery to await the resurrec- 
tion morn. 

Mr. President, this is the third time in the history of Missouri 
that her Senator during his term of of&ce has died, and these three 
deaths have all occurred in the same line or class of Senators, which 



12 ADDRESS OF MR. COCKRELL ON THE 

began with Senator Barton. Mr. Alexander Buckner, serving in 
the terra beginning March 4, 1831, and ending March 3, 1837, 
died in the year 1833, during the recess, and was succeeded by Dr. 
Lewis F. Linn, who served out Mr. Buckner's term, and was liis 
own successor by two re-elections, for the terms ending respectively 
March 3, 1843, and March 3, 1849, but died in the recess, on Oc- 
tober 31, 1843. Mr. Bogy, in 1873, became a Senator in this same 
class, and died September 20, 1877, during the recess. 

Mr. Bogy from youth to death displayed an honorable ambition, 
a strong will, an unyielding perseverance, and a lion-hearted cour- 
age that never failed in the face of the strongest difficulty. In all 
the relations of life he was " the born gentleman," courteous, gener- 
ous, liberal, and warm-hearted. 

As a son he was dutiful, affectionate, and considerate. As husband 
and father he was kind, loving, patient, and tender, and doted with 
strong affection upon his wife and children. 

It is in these sacred relations of life that the true character of 
man is exemplified, and herein the late Senator Bogy stood pre- 
eminent, and happily realized the truth of the beautiful lines : 

/ Domestic happiness, thou only bliss 

Of Paradise that lias survived the fall ! 
Thou art the muse of virtue ; in thine arms 
She smiles, appearing as in truth she is 
Heaven-born and destined to the skies again. 

As a citizen he was patriotic and devoted to the Constitution and 
form of Government, and labored earnestly and zealously for the 
development of the material interests of his own great and rapidly 
growing city and State and of our whole country. 

As a public official he recognized that he was the agent and ser- 
vant of the people, and was laborious, diligent, and faithful in the 
discharge of every trust confided to him and of every obligation 
imposed upon him. 



LIFE AND CHAEACTER OP LEWIS V. BOGY. 16 

When his eventful career drew to its inevitable close and the 
labors of his life on earth were ended by the separation of soul and 
body in temporal death, the people of his native State and of the 
whole country justly felt and uttered the sentiment, " Well done, 
thou good and faithful servant." 

Mr. President, I have often heard it stated upon this floor that 
the Senate of the United States is a continuing body, perpetual in 
existence, without end of days in law. This may be true as a legal 
proposition and may tend to divert our attention from a stern fact 
and an inexorable event, the uncertainty of life and the certainty of 
death. 

It is therefore proper that we occasionally turn from the thrilling 
and absorbing themes discussed in this body to contemplate the end 
of all the living and to realize that — 

Life is ever a vapor that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away, 

and that — 

Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble. He comcth forth 
like a flower and is cut down. 

During my short term of service here, now less than three years, 
the Senate has been called upon to suspend its business that we 
might pay proper tribute to the public and private virtues of the 
late Vice-President Henry Wilson, and of the late President and 
United States Senator from Tennessee, Andrew Johnson, and of the 
late Senator from Connecticut, Orris S. Ferry, and of the late Sen- 
ator from West Virginia, Allen T. Caperton, and we now pay the 
same tribute to my late colleague, Lewis V. Bogy, and to-morrow 
we will pay the same tribute to the late Senator from Indiana, 
Oliver P. Morton. We are thus solemnly warned of the truth of 
the divine utterance: 

Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live. 



14 ADDrwESS OF MR. MAXEY ON THE 

It is the dictate of both religion and philosophy that we cherish 
the memories of departed brother Senators now quietly sleeping in 
the sepulcher, that universal and venerable teacher which declares 
to us to-day the same truths which it has for fifty-eight centuries 
past declared in all climes and in all tongues of the earth, to all 
classes of people, to the king upon his throne, to the peasant in his 
hut, to the wise and to the ignorant: 

Our Uves are rivers gliding free 
To that unfathomed boundless sea, 
The silent grave. 

The lessons which the scpulcher imparts impress us with the mo- 
mentous interests which cluster around life, death, and eternity : 

For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. 

The " Man of Calvary " has lighted the gloom of the scpulcher 
with the glories of his triumph. We can exclaim : 

O, death, where is thy sting? 
O, grave, where is thy victory? 



Address of Mr. Maxey, of Texas. 

Mr. President: Lewis V. Bogy was born April 9, 1813, in 
the Territory (now State) of Missouri, in the County of Sainte 
Genevieve. He acquired the rudiments of an English education 
in the schools of the neighborhood, but in the main was educated 
by his own exertions without an instructor. 

He began the study of law in 1832 with Judge Pope, of Kas- 
kaskia, Illinois, but suspended his studies to volunteer in the Black 
Hawk war, and participated in two engagements and was present 
at the capture of Black Hawk. At the close of the war he resumed 
his studies under Judge Pope, and in 1835 completed them at 
Transylvania University, settled in Saint Louis, and began the 



LIFE AND CHARACTER OF LEWIS V. BOGY. 15 

practice of law at the age of twenty-two years, without aid from 
fortune or family influence. 

With a robust constitution, temperate habits, a will to succeed, 
energy, and strict integrity, he laid the foundation of fortune and 
usefulness and rapidly rose in his profession. He served for a time 
in the Legislature with credit, and occupied other positions of prom- 
inence, among them commissioner of common schools, in his native 
State. He was for a time president of the city council of Saint 
Louis. His most important service to the State, and especially to 
Saint Louis, was in effectively directing the public mind to the vast 
importance of developing the wonderful deposits of iron ore in the 
mountains south of Saint Louis, known as Pilot Knob and Iron 
Mountain. 

This he began in 1847, and soon drew the attention of sagacious 
capitalists to this inexhaustible and rich ore. These beds were 
remote from navigation, and tlicre were then no railroads in that 
direction. Through his indefatigable exertions companies were 
formed and a railroad projected and completed from Saint Louis to 
the iron deposits, giving a new impetus to its enterprise and greatly 
increasing the city in wealth and population. The Saint Louis and 
Iron Mountain Railroad has within the last few years been pushed 
into Texas, and by it and connecting railroads Saint Louis now has 
all-rail connection with the Gulf of Mexico at Galveston. 

He builded better than ho knew. 

Mr. Bogy was one of the leading spirits in jDrojecting and estab- 
lishing the great iron founderies near Saint Louis, which have added 
so greatly to the prosperity of the city. He lent his untiring energy 
and influence to other enterprises of public advantage. He was a 
public-spirited man ; one of the men to whom all look to head great 
enterprises. 



IG ADDRESS OF MR. MAXEY OX THE 

He was a splendid type of the rugged old men of the West, fast 
passing away, who carved thriving States out of a wilderness. 
Born in the Territory of Missouri soon after it passed from the 
dominion of Spain to that of France, and then under the jurisdic- 
tion of the United States, he lived to see the sparsely populated 
Territory of his birth enter the Union as a State under a political 
excitement never before reached in this country. He, lived to see 
that excitement disappear, and other and graver differences appear 
and disappear, while his native State advanced in wealth and polit- 
ical influence till it had reached, in his day, the very front rank of 
States. 

Beginning his professional life in Saint Louis just when it was 
emerging from a French trading-post into a prosperous town, he 
lived to see it among the leading commercial cities of the Union, 
Avith the great Mississippi at its base, spanned by the most splendid 
bridge in the world. 

Of the enterprise, progress, and prosperity of Missouri and her 
great metropolis, Mr. Bogy could well have exclaimed, "All of 
which I saw, and a great part of which I was." 

Mr. Bogy was appointed Commissioner of Indian Affairs in the 
year 1867, and conducted the complicated business of that impor- 
tant bureau with conspicuous intelligence and fidelity. I doubt if 
any man was ever at the head of that bureau who so thoroughly 
as he understood Indian affairs. This was the only office he ever 
held under the Federal Government. 

He was elected to the Senate by the Legislature of Missouri, and 
took his seat in this body March 4, 1873. 

As a Senator he was honest, industrious, careful in arriving at 
his conclusions, and alive to every measure of national importance 
while never forgetting that he was specially intrusted with what 



LIFE AND CHARACTER OF LEWIS V. BOGY. 17 

specially concerned Missouri. He frequently took part in debate, 
was a ready and fluent speaker, reasoned well, and showed without 
effort that he had read and thought deeply. While unswerving in 
his party allegiance he was always courteous in debate as well as in 
social intercourse, and was a popular man in the Senate. 

His last important work as a Senator was as a member of the 
monetary commission, under the joint resolution of August 15, 
1876, and upon this duty he entered with all the zeal of his earnest 
nature. The report of the commission will show how well and 
faithfully this great and important work was performed. 

Mr. Bogy's health began to fail during the intensely hot weeks 
closing the first session of the Forty-fourth Congress, and it was 
never restored, although for months afterward he continued his 
usual labors ; but finally he was stricken down, and after a linger- 
ing illness he died at his residence in Saint Louis at eleven o'clock 
a. m., September 20, 1877, in the sixty-fifth year of his age. All 
that the tenderest love of a devoted family and the affection of life- 
long friends could do was done to make smooth the rugged path- way. 
No man ever died in Saint Louis whose memory received more or 
higher marks of affectionate esteem than Lewis Vital Bogy. 

The resolutions of the large and highly respectable bar of Saint 
Louis, of which he was so distinguished a member, which I place 
before the Senate, are as follows : 

Resolved, That we, the members of the bar of Saint Louis, bear witness that 
Lewis V. Bogy, during his long career in the profession, was distinguished by a 
high order of ability and the deportment of a true gentleman. It has been truth- 
fully said of him that he was a "born gentleman ;" that he possessed the virtues of 
a Christian all will confess who knew him; he was devoted and faithful to every 
duty or trust in public or private life. Of the kindest disposition, he was also the 
purest and best of men in his relations to his family and friends. 

Resolved, That in expressing our appreciation of his career in public life we but 
record the truth of history when we affirm that he was always earnest and consci- 
entious, true to the interests of the people of the entire country, a firm and steadfast 
friend to the people of the West, and labored with all his zeal and energy to build 
up the material prosperity of the State and the constituency he represented. 



18 ADDRESS OF MR. AAXEY ON THE 

In addition to the respect shown by the members of the bar, who 
attended his funeral in a body, and by the vast concourse of citizens 
who followed his remains to their last resting-place, many business 
and social organizations passed resolutions of respect as a tribute to 
the memory of Mr. Bogy, not only in Saint Louis, but all over 
the State, and the press, irrespective of party, rendered merited 
tribute to the memory of the dead Senator. 

The States of Missouri and Texas had so many interests in com- 
mon that soon after I entered the Senate at the executive session 
in March, 1875, I was thrown much into companionsliip with Mr. 
Bogy, and conferred with him freely, the more so as we were of 
the same political faith and party, and there sprang up a kindly 
relation which continued till his death. He was a man of 
clear judgment and unusually quick perception. His mind was 
well stored with valuable information. While, as was well said 
by the Saint Louis bar in their resolutions, "he was a born 
gentleman," he possessed in an eminent degree the rugged charac- 
teristics of the western pioneer. Strong in his convictions, with 
but little of policy, positive and outspoken in his likes and dis- 
likes, fearless in expression and action, honest and true, and every 
inch a man, he was in his family and social relations gentle as a 
woman. 

I remember that he was called from the Senate Chamber to the 
bedside of his dying old mother, at his home in St. Louis, Of this 
visit and of his great gratification in reaching her bedside before 
she died, which was but a short time after his arrival, and of the 
pleasure he felt that she at once recognized him although nearly 
gone, and of her noble traits of character, he spoke to me quite 
freely after his return, and I felt that more than forty active years 
in the great battle of life had neither dried up nor weakened the 



LIFE AND CHAEACTER OF LEWIS V. BOGY. 19 

pure fountain of his filial affection. From that time no man could 
have shaken my faith in Lewis V. Bogy. 

I feel sure that every Senator who served with him respected his 
absolute integrity and that not one ever entertained even a moment- 
ary feeling of unkindness toward him. The kindly traits of his 
character, his purity of life and purpose, were attested in all the 
many resolutions passed by bar meetings and societies over the State 
of Missouri. These noble qualities endeared him to the people of 
his native State. 

Howe'er it be, it seems to me 

'Tis only noble to be good. 
Kind hearts are more than coronets, 

And simple faith than Norman blood. 

Such is a brief sketch of Lewis Vital Bogy. He has left a 
lasting and good impress on his State, has set a good example here, 
and did not live in vain. 



Address of Mr. Christiancy, of Michigan. 

Mr. President: Not a mere sense of propriety, but the high 
esteem and personal respect which I entertained for the man, impel 
me to say a few words in commemoration of Senator Bogy, whose 
voice, once familiar to us here, will be heard no more in this Hall. 

A descendant of the early French settlers, who, under the auspices 
of France, had estabHshed a solid footing in Canada, and spread 
their scattered settlements in the rear of the English columns, from 
the great Lakes almost to the Gulf; he retained many of the char- 
acteristics of that people. French was his mother tongue, English 
an acquired language, which he spoke with less fluency, and always 
with a pronunciation slightly tinged with the French accent. 



20 ADDRESS OF MR. CHIIISTIANCY ON THE 

Limited as bis early education had been, be overcame its defects 
by great industry and application — neglecting tbe mere literature 
and lighter accomplishments of the time, and applying all his ener- 
gies to the acquisition of useful and practical knowledge, which 
enabled him to meet the real struggle of life; to overcome the 
obstacles in the pathway of success ; to take advantage of the oppor- 
tunities presented for bettering his condition, and when he could 
not control, to conform himself to, and make the most of, the cir- 
cumstances by which he was surrounded. Though the law was his 
profession, and he obtained a good standing at the bar, he did not 
confine himself to the studies nor to the routine of his profession, 
but turned his attention to questions of politics and statesmanship ; 
making liimself familiar especially with every branch of knowledge 
essential to a full understanding of the magnitude, the capabilities, 
the interests, and the wants of the Great West; and of these few 
men had more ample knowledge or appreciation. The whole sub- 
ject of the public lands ; the condition, numbers, and character of 
the Indian tribes; the Indian treaties; the intercourse with and the 
questions of policy toward the Indians ; the character and condition 
of the frontier settlers, and their interests and wants he had care- 
fully studied, and thoroughly understood. 

He was also a man of action and of enterprise ; a pioneer in the 
system of railroad improvements in his own State, which has done 
so much to develop the resources of that State and of the States 
and Territories thence westward to the Pacific. 

As Commissioner of Indian Affairs liis policy and all his actions ap- 
pear to have been dictated, not only by a sense of justice, but by a 
warm kindness for the race and the noblest promptings of humanity. 

He was a man of positive opinions and strong convictions, never 
shrinking from their avowal, and always ready to maintain them 



LIFE AND CHARACTEE OF LEWIS V. BOGY. 21 

by argument to the utmost of his abilities. As a debater in the 
popular forum, or in the Senate, he was generally well posted in his 
facts, and warm and zealous, and even enthusiastic, in argument. 
With less power of dealing with the abstract than the concrete, he 
was apt to spend too much of his force in the presentation and dis- 
cussion of details, instead of seizing at once upon the general 
principles involved in and resulting from them. This naturally led 
him into a discursive style, and often weakened the real force of his 
arguments. With too little power of abstraction always to overlook 
or disregard non-essentials, and to bring out prominently to view 
the essential principles involved, he could not always readily render 
the point at which he aimed so prominent and distinct, even to his 
own vision, as to be able at the first shot to hit exactly the mark, 
though he generally hit near it, and always finally made up for this 
want of accuracy of sight and aim by a continuous repetition of his 
shots till the point was finally struck or worn away and demolished 
by the constant attrition which had undermined its base. 

Patient, laborious, and persistent in his investigations, he shirked 
no labor essential to the discharge of his duties, either in the Senate 
or upon committee. And upon committees especially he exerted all 
his powers and labored with the utmost fidelity to reach the just 
and proper result. His sense of justice was strong and clear, and 
he spared no pains in reaching a just result, and this he seemed 
often to reach with great accuracy by a kind of intuition without 
being able to state with logical accuracy the steps of the process by 
which he had reached it. Personally he was kind, gentle, social, 
and generous ; and these traits were not factitious nor put on for the 
occasion, but real and essential attributes of the man himself. 
Courteous and polite in his intercourse with others, as from his 
French descent it was but natural for him to be, he never allowed 



22 ADDRESS OF MR. CHRISTIANCY ON THE 

his courtesy or politeness to overcome his attachment to truth, nor 
to repress liis condemnation of what he believed to be wrong. 

Born and reared a Catholic, and conforming his faith to the 
teachings of his church with the confiding trust of a child to the 
authority of a beloved mother, his mind was untroubled with 
doubts of his future, and he was not shaken to and fro by the spec- 
ulations of philosophers or metaphysicians whose theories always 
end in doubt and uncertainty. And if a man can bring himself to 
that state of unquestioning confidence and trust, though we may 
not be able to agree with him, who shall say he has not been wise? 
The solution of this question is not for us, but for Him alone whose 
field of vision is infinite, while ours is almost infinitely small. 

But though his religious belief was thus settled, he was tolerant 
of the beliefs and opinions of others. 

Finally, I will say that, notwithstanding our difierences of relig- 
ious and political belief, the more I saw of Senator Bogy the more 
I appreciated the qualities of his head and heart and the more 
warmly I became attached to him. And when the intelligence of 
his death reached me, sudden and unexpected as it was, I felt, and 
still feel, as I believe this Senate feel, a deep sense of bereavement 
at his loss, as for the loss of a brother. And it is well that we should 
cherish these sentiments. Entering, as most of us have entered, this 
Hall after middle life, we must, in the order of nature, expect the 
hand of Death to be frequently thrust in among us, claiming his 
own with relentless impartiality. And the tribute of kindly remem- 
brance which we render to-day to one of our number may any day 
be called forth in behalf of any of us in our turn who yet survive. 

The custom of devoting one day to the memory of each who has 
been cut down, reviewing their several traits of character with the 
kindness and impartiality which deatli can command, but which the 



LIFE AND CHARACTER OF LEWIS V. BOGY. 23 

conflicts of opinion, the lieat and misapprehensions of debate, and 
the diversities of party views often obscure, naturally tends to make 
us more kind and lenient in judging of each other's opinions, i^ur- 
poses, and personal qualities; to promote mutual respect and esteem, 
and to encourage mutual forbearance and charitable judgments, in 
spite of all our differences of opinions upon the policies and meas- 
ures of Government, and thus to keep this body— what it has long 
been — the most courteous legislative body in the world. 



Address of Mr. JOHNSTON, of Virginia. 

Mr. President : Although I had never seen Mr. Bogy till we 
met here in the Senate, it early came about that we were thrown 
much together and became intimate friends. Lil^e most men of 
strong and striking qualities, he was not without peculiarities of man- 
ner and character, which, looking like blemishes at first, were seen at 
last to cover genuine virtues. He was decided, bold, and persistent 
in the formation of his opinion and the expression of his views ; 
and if he seemed sometimes to exhibit what might have been con- 
sidered vehemence, it was only because his convictions were strong. 

In the friendly, almost confidential intercourse in which we in- 
dulged, the real sterling and tender traits of his character were 
brought to light. He spoke to me often of his children, especially 
a daughter to whom he seemed to be deeply attached and who died 
only about a year before him. He was summoned by telegram to 
visit her sick bed, in expectation that her demise was near at hand. 
But the journey was long, and before he reached its end a second 
message informed him of her death. On his return he unbosomed 
himself to me — spoke of her tender devotion to him, her anxiety to 
see him and obtain his blessing before death parted them, and his 



24 ADDRESS OF MR. JOHNSTON ON THE 

own sorrowful heart. And I am fixed in the belief that this great 
sorrow had much to do in breaking him down, and maldng him full 
an easier victim to the disease of which he died. 

He was a man who was much before the public and held many 
important trusts. He passed through the ordeal well in every way, 
for he not only performed the duties of each place with ability and 
fidelity, but with such zeal, devotion, and honor that he escaped 
wholly the breath of calumny. He was for some time Commis- 
sioner of Indian Affairs, a position which in our peculiar relations 
to the Indian tribes, the difficulties attending its honest and efficient 
execution, the suspicion that attaches to it in the minds of many 
people, makes it one of the most delicate, difficult, and important 
offices under the Government. But he did this as he did every- 
thing else, well, and retired with honor and good-will and with a 
vast store of information very useful to him and the country when 
he came to occupy a seat upon this fl.oor. 

He was one of the few men who in early life blocked out a career 
for himself and attained it, for it is well authenticated that while 
yet young he declared his purpose of reaching the Senate, never lost 
sight of it, and finally accomplished the object of his ambition. 

Senator Bogy was emphatically a western man. No statesman 
of the day had given more attention to the country between the 
Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean than he had. Not that 
he underestimated the region east of the Mississippi, but he believed 
that the ultimate seat of empire would be found west of the Mis- 
sissippi, and that in its growth and progress were embraced the 
greatest growth, wealth, prosperity, and progress of the American 
people. 

And it is surely true that the great problem of our country, now 
pressing for solution, exists in that part of the United States. The 



LIFE AND CHARACTER OF LEWIS V. BOGY. 25 

silver of the Sierras ; the Indian tribes, presenting the exceptional 
condition of a people treated by us partly as citizens and partly as 
foreigners, living in the same territory with us and yet making 
treaties with our Government; the Chinese question, so ominous of 
danger and so hard to deal with; our trade with China, Japan, 
Australia; the railroads to the Pacific, already constructed and yet 
to be built — all these he had studied practically and thoroughly, 
especially that great Indian problem, so hard and yet so necessary 
to solve. He knew the customs, habits, and peculiarities of all the 
tribes, and had both knowledge and wisdom in dealing with this sub- 
ject, so embarrassing now and likely to be so for years yet to come. 
And long before the silver question became the absorbing topic it 
is now, Mr. Bogy was one of the first in either House to perceive 
its magnitude and public interest. While most of our public men 
were content to know in a general way that gold and silver abounded 
in the region looking toward the Pacific, he had already acquired 
accurate and exhaustive knowledge of the whole subject, was a 
pioneer, and foresaw not only its commercial but its political import- 
ance. That he died pending these great questions is much to be 
regretted. His counsels would have been valuable to his country, 
and his death, a public calamity at any time, is doubly so now. 

But, Mr. President, it has pleased Providence to remove him 
from a sphere of great usefulness, and I can truly pronounce of 
him what after all is the best eulogy to be pronounced upon any 
man: that he did his duty honestly through life; that, being placed 
in many trying and responsible situations, he came safely through 
them all ; that he was devoted to his domestic relations, was a useful 
citizen, a faithful public officer, and a sincere and practical member 
of the church to which he belonged. And these things being said 
with truth, what more need or should be said? 



26 ADDRESS OF MR. KERNAN ON THE 



Address of Mr. Kernan, of New York. 

Mr. President : My personal acquaintance with Senator Bogy 
was comparatively brief. It began in this Chamber in March, 
1875. It ended last March, when we parted here with mutual 
kind wishes. We had become intimate, and that intimacy had 
grown into friendship. I respected and esteemed him. I mourn 
his loss, and willingly unite in this tribute of respect to his char- 
acter and memory. 

Mr. Bogy was an honest, honorable man. As a member of the 
Legislature of Missouri, and as Commissioner of Indian Affairs in 
1867 and 1868, he discharged his duties with ability and fidelity 
to the trusts committed to his charge. 

As a member of this body he was attentive to all his duties and 
diligent in performing them. He was watchful and laborious to 
protect the rights and promote the interest of the State he repre- 
sented, and to promote the prosperity and welfare of the entire 
Union. He possessed much and varied knowledge, and was a ready 
and forcible debater. His party feelings were strong but he did 
not permit them to swerve him from doing that which he believed 
to be right and for tJie public good. By his death the State of 
Missouri has lost an able and conscientious representative, and this 
body an intelligent, useful, and patriotic member. 

In private life he was a genial and most agreeable companion, a 
warni and sincere friend. No one could hear him talk, as he often 
did, of his mother, of the neighbors among whom he lived in boy- 
hood, of the parish priest who taught him the rudiments of the 
Latin language, of his wife and children, without being impressed 
that he was an affectionate son, husband, and father. 



LIFE AND CHARACTER OF LEWIS V. BOGY. 27 

He was a member of the Catholic Church, and firmly believed 
the creed of that church. He professed and practiced his own faith 
free from bigotry or uncharitableness toward others. 

Mr. President, the death of our friend illustrates the uncertainty 
of life, the certainty of death. It is another of the admonitions 
which we almost daily receive, that we should strive to so live that 
we may be at all times prepared to meet our Creator and our Judge. 
I trust he was so prepared. Sincerely mourning his death, I, in 
accordance with that faith which we both held, earnestly pray that 
his spirit may rest in peace. 



Address of Mr. Merrimon, of North Carolina. 

Mr. President, I made the acquaintance of the late Senator 
Bogy when he first entered this Chamber as a Senator. From that 
time until his death our relations were friendly, agreeable, and 
cordial. We sat near each other. I observed his course of action, 
conversed much and freely with him, and came to know him very 
well as a member of this body. 

Mr. Bogy possessed far more than ordinary capacities. His 
educational training may not have been thorough or liberal — I 
know not how this was — but his intellectual powers were in large 
measure well developed. It will not be claimed that he had acquired 
great learning; he had, however, read extensively and treasured 
much from his reading and reflection. He had considerable expe- 
rience in afiairs ; his observation was large, particularly on practical 
subjects; he was virtually inclined to be practical in his course of 
thought and action. He thought well and strongly and generally 
reached accurate conclusions. 



28 ADDRESS OF MR. MERRIMON ON THE 

He had a generous nature; he was frank, affable, and sincere; 
sincere in his friendships and in all he said and did. He had inde- 
pendence of thought and action, and expressed his opinions freely ; 
he scorned intrigue and circumvention. 

He was courageous; quick to resent and repel insult and injury; 
free and prompt to forgive when reparation was tendered. 

He had a warm heart, and his affections were deep and tender. 
In this connection may I be pardoned for venturing to refer to an 
event that I believe hurried him to his grave. On an occasion 
several months before his death he was called home on account of 
the illness of a member of his family. A favorite daughter, very 
dear to him, died ; and ever after that his heart seemed to be over- 
burdened by the deepest sorrow. Sitting near me, oftentimes, he 
would turn to me and sjjeak in tender and touching terms of his 
departed daughter; of the sweetness of her nature; of the noble 
qualities of her mind and heart. It seemed to afford him a melan- 
choly pleasure to recount her virtues. This sad affliction weighed 
down his spirits, and, I thought at the time, affected his health. 
He constantly complained of bodily illness of which he could not 
rid himself. May we hope that his departed soul has rejoined the 
sweet spirit of that daughter in a better world. 

Mr. Bogy was a sincere patriot; he loved his whole country; he 
deplored the late civil war and the conflicts of passions, sectional 
jealousies, animosities, and hatreds growing out of it. He warmly 
sympathized with the people of the South in their struggles for 
restoration to constitutional rights and wholesome government, and 
earnestly desired the complete restoration of the Union in spirit as 
well as name. 

No Senator could be more devoted to his State and people than 
he was to the State and people of Missouri. He was ever watchful 



LIFE AND CHARACTER OF LEWIS V. BOGY. 29 

of their interests, rights, and honors, and served them faithfully. 
He believed that State destined to become in most respects the great 
State of the Union, and Saint Louis the central and greatest city of 
the Mississippi Valley. He experienced pleasure in contemplating 
their increasing growth of population, industries, and commerce in 
coming years. 

He took a deep interest in the western section of our country — 
in the advancement of its civilization and the development of its 
material interests. He was the warm friend and advocate of every 
measure which in his judgment looked to that end. And in this 
connection he was not unmindful of the Indians, their rights, their 
wants, and necessities, as well as the most effective means to protect 
the white people against savage treachery, plunder, and barbarity. 
He indulged no false sentimentality on this subject, but advocated 
a just, firm, and rigid line of action as best calculated to benefit and 
protect the Indians as well as the white people. 

I think it may be said that Mr. Bogy was in most respects a fair 
type of the western man. He was bold; full of energy, enterprise, 
industry, and self-reliance. He was neither a brilliant nor a sensa- 
tional man, in the common acception of these terms. He was not 
ostentatious in his deportment or speech, but he was earnest, and 
belonged to that other class of useful men who look at the substance 
of things, and who by constant thought, industrious effort in con- 
versation, in committee, and in the Senate, quietly mold and mature 
measures that affect, direct, and control the interests and destinies 
of the Government and the people. He was neither little, narrow- 
minded, nor niggardly in his views of government and measures of 
public policy. On the contrary, he entertained broad, comprehen- 
sive, liberal, and catholic views on these subjects. He was the warm 
friend of every legitimate industry, wherever found, in the borders 



30 ADDRESS OF MR. SARGENT ON THE 



of our country, and all measures looking to the encouragement of 
the same. He took a deep and anxious interest in every effort to 
restore, enlarge, and extend our commerce, not only domestic but 
in every quarter of the world, and especially in South America and 
the East Indies. Nothing calculated to advance and secure these 
great ends escaped his observation or failed to receive in some way 
his support. 

Mr. Bogy was a distinguished citizen of his State and the Union, 
and in a large, important, and honorable sense, a useful Senator, 
who reflected credit on himself, his State, and our common country. 

I experience sad pleasure in making these imperfect references to 
some of the many excellent features of his character, and other some 
of his meritorious deeds. I do not pretend that he was free from 
the imperfections, weaknesses, perhaps vices, common to human 
nature; like the generality of mankind he had his faults. 

But his labors are ended, his term of this life is over; the inter- 
ests, the wealth, the blandishments, and the honors of this world 
have ceased forever to be interesting to him. These things cannot 
affect or awaken him from the cold slumbers of the grave. His 
spirit has gone to meet his Maker and experience the realities of 
eternal things. Let us profit by his example; let us avoid and for- 
get his faults ; let us remember his virtues and imitate and emulate 
his good, his noble deeds. 



Address of Mr. Sargent, of California. 

Mr. President : I will detain the Senate to add but a few words 
to these tributes to our departed associate and friend. I remember 
the suddenness with which came to me the announcement of his 
death. At the close of the previous session of Congress, anticipating 



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an extra session early in the summer and fearing that I might be 
detained at my distant home, I had arranged a pair with him on 
political questions. I remember that he spoke pleasantly of meet- 
ing me at this December session, if not before. Alas, before the 
extra session came he was summoned hence, to be here no more 
forever. Thus uncertain is life. Thus death constantly invades 
even this narrow circle, thins our numbers, and reminds us that 
no gravity of employment, no eminence of station, no interest, 
public or private, can arrest its fateful decrees. 

We are such stuflf 
As dreams are made of, and our little life 
Is rounded with a sleep. 

Mr. Bogy had improved by cultivation more than by ordinary 
natural gifts. His intellectual processes were rapid and exhaustive. 
His mind teemed with suggestions in support of his convictions. 
He was most positive in his opinions, bold and uncompromising in 
uttering them; a strong partisan of a radical school. He was 
always armed, ready to defend his party and attack its opponents. 
But I think the record of debates and the memory of Senators will 
be taxed in vain to find an instance where he was discourteous to a 
brother Senator, or where he showed that the collision of debate 
had excited him to anger against his opponent here. His inter- 
course with his associates on this floor showed that a man of warm 
feelings and strong partisanship, while maintaining the cxtremest 
points of his political creed, may have a friendship for and enjoy 
the friendship of those most opposed to his views. 

It is well that this should be so. We are here from constituencies 
as diverse in opinion as location. The friction of every strong pas- 
sion in the country is here felt. Opinions are constantly expressed 
here that are the natural outgrowth of sections of the country, which 



32 ADDRESS OF MR. ARMSTRONG ON THE 

seem most strange, even abhorrent, to Senators who represent other 
parts of the country. Our national domain is broad and our interests 
diverse, often conflicting, and party zeal differs in intensity and 
direction in different localities. All these conditions inspire our 
debates and lead to diverse views. But we learn tolerance of each 
other's opinions and utterances by our long-continued association 
here, and that the Senator extreme in his partyism of any shade may 
be kind and courteous in feeling, self-respecting and respecting the 
rights of his peers. 

Such was our deceased friend in his intercourse with Senators. 
From the proximity of the seats which we occupied I was much in 
contact with him, and learned to appreciate his real goodness of 
heart and his constant courtesy, while generally differing from his 
views and utterances upon public men, measures, and policy. 



Address of Mr. Armstrong, of Missouri. 

Mr. President : The grave seals the lips of unfriendly criticism, 
and should also close them against the hypocrisy of indiscriminate 
laudation. In the few remarks I have to offer on this mournful 
occasion it will be my purpose to briefly sketch the history of my 
lamented friend, with whom I have been intimately acquainted 
for more than thirty-five years — pointing to features of his character 
and such acts of his life as should teach useful lessons to the living, 
and make his memory dear to his countrymen. 

Lewis Vital Bogy was born in the town of Sainte Genevieve, 
Sainte Genevieve County, Missouri, on the 9th day of April, 1813. 



LIFE AND CHARACTER OF LEWIS V. BOGY. 33 



His father was a Canadian Frenchman— one of the successors of the 
brave Marquette, La Salle, and Laclede— one of the race of hardy 
pioneers who pitched the tents of civilization on the shores of the 
great lakes and along the banks of the Illinois and Mississippi 

Rivers. 

Like almost every other youth in the western wilderness at that 
day, young Bogy gathered the rudiments of an English education 
in the primitive log school-house of the times, and supplemented 
this by careful and presevering study at home. 

He spent some of his early days as a clerk in a country store for 
the purpose of acquiring means to enable him to prepare for a pro- 
fessional career. 

In 1832 he commenced the study of law in the office of Nathaniel 
Pope, judge of the United States district court, at Kaskaskia, Illi- 
nois. Shortly after this period the Black Hawk war broke out, and 
young Bogy, like nearly every other young man in that region, at 
once abandoned his favorite pursuits, volunteered as a private soldier, 
and marched to the front to protect our widely extended and then 
sparsely settled frontier. Returning after an honorable discharge, 
he completed his legal studies at the law school of Transylvania 
University, Lexington, Kentucky, where he graduated in 1835. 
He at once began the practice of law in Samt Louis, and his success 
in this profession led to the accumulation of a handsome fortune. 

In 1840 he was elected to the lower house of the Missouri General 
Assembly from Saint Louis County as a whig. He took a promi- 
nent part in the proceedings of that body, and was one of its leading 
members. 

In 1852 he was nominated for Congress in the Saint Louis con- 
gressional district by the democratic party, and was defeated by 
Colonel Benton who ran independently. 



34 ADDRESS OP MR. ARMSTRONG ON THE 

Having removed from Saint Louis to Sainte Genevieve, in 1854 
he ^vas elected from that, his native county, to again serve the 
people as a representative in the General Assembly. That body gave 
State aid largely for the construction of railroads in Missouri, No 
man took a more active part in the exciting discussions and inter- 
esting proceedings of the General Assembly, consequent upon the 
adoption of these measures, or had a more commanding influence 
upon its legislation, than Colonel Bogy. 

Courteous, considerate, genial, and liberal in his views, even his 
opponents regretted to differ from him. 

In 1862 he was nominated for Congress a second time in the Saint 
Louis congressional district; but amid the throes of the terrible con- 
vulsions of that period no democrat could be elected. The courage 
and self-control of the leader were not possessed by a majority of 
his friends; and, after a bold and fearless campaign, he was again 
defeated. 

In 1866 he was appointed by President Johnson Commissioner of 
Indian Affairs. He discharged the very laborious duties of that office 
in so faithful and competent a manner that even his bitterest oppo- 
nents failed to discover any deviation from the strictest rectitude. 

In January, 1873, his highest aspirations were crowned with suc- 
cess, by an election to the United States Senate — the distinguished 
eminence to which his boyish ambition looked forward with a sin- 
gular yet prophetic confidence. 

He died at his family residence in Saint Louis on the 20th day of 
September, 1877, and now 

"Sleeps the sleep that knows not breaking" 

in the quiet shades of Calvary Cemetery, in the suburbs of that city. 
He died, as he had lived, a faithful, trusting, and exemplary 



member of the Catholic Church— the church to which his fathers 
for generations had belonged. 

The remote cause of his death was of an intermittent malarial 
character, little thought of at first, to which was added the extreme 
exliaustion consequent on the excitement, mental strain, and over- 
work, imposed by his chivalric idea of the duties he owed to his 
party and his country on this floor, during the eventful winter of 

1876 and 1877. 

This, Mr. President, is the brief record of a busy, useful, and not 
uneventful life. During his whole career he was an earnest advo- 
cate and liberal supporter of all measures that looked to the largest 
industrial developments of the wonderful mineral and agricultural 
resources of his native State. Early and late, in sickness and in 
health, his devotion to these interests knew no abatement, and was 
proverbial throughout the West. 

He knew that Missouri was the storehouse of vast wealth, both of 
the soil and of the mine, and that these undeveloped treasures were 
almost worthless until they could be brought to the markets of the 
world. He clearly comprehended this, and gave his time, talents, 
and fortune to inaugurate a system of railways that should stimu- 
late settlements, and furnish transportation facilities to all parts of 
the State. The network of railways spread over Missouri at this 
time, and which has done much to make Saint Louis the fourth city 
in the United States, and raised our State from the sixteenth to the 
fifth in the Union, is largely indebted to his endeavors and his coun- 
sels for its existence. 

He also spent much time and money in the development of 
our mineral resources; and his example, inspiring others, has so ex- 
tended explorations and mining operations as to prove that Missouri 
has enough iron, lead, and zinc to supply the wants of the world. 




36 ADDRESS OF MR. ARMSTRONG ON THE 

He was opposed to all monopolies, and believed in the doctrine 
that every great community should be self-sustaining, and measur- 
ably independent in all leading indastries. Hence he was a firm 
and earnest friend of manufactures, and proved his faith by his 
works. His teaching and example were among the influences that 
have made Saint Louis the third manufacturing city in the United 
States. 

He fought, Mr. President, the battle of life all the way up-hill, 
overcoming obstacles, and dispelling opposition, that would have 
subdued a man of feebler temper. Inspired with a lofty ambition, 
he sought distinction, not for itself, but that it might render him 
more serviceable to his State and his country ; and for these he 
labored with a zeal that never flagged, and a vigilance that never 
slept. During his life's career, from the stripling on the frontier 
of the far West to the conscript father in the Senate Chamber, he 
was always busy, earnest, and indefatigable in the attempt to acliieve 
results beneficial to his fellow-men. 

His personal integrity and his high sense of honor were never 
questioned. 

Without pretending to the polish of the rhetorician or the arts of 
the orator, he was earnest and effective in debate, sinking the 
politician in the patriot, warmly contending for what he deemed 
right, and like a true statesman, working for the great interests of 
the people and the good of the whole country. 

Beloved by his relatives, honored by his friends, and respected 

by his opponents, he filled his place with equal credit to himself and 

advantage to his State ; and, without towering genius or vaulting 

ambition, yet — 

The elements 
So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up 
And say to all the world, " This was a man! " 



LIFE AND CHARACTER OF LEWIS V. BOGY. 37 

The truth of the following language, used by one who knew liim 
intimately and well, will be vouched for by all his fellow-citizens 
that had the pleasure of a close acquaintance. 

" The death of Senator Bogy is not only a great loss to Missouri and to the Missis- 
sippi Valley, but it is a public calamity. He was as pure as burnished gold. He 
was proof against all venal influences. Reaching that degree of confidence among 
his contemporaries in the Senate, and through the belief in his own powers which 
experience in a familiar theater of action gives, he was in a condition to render, 
during the remaining one-third of his term in the Senate, the State, the valley and 
the Union more statesmanlike services than he before could have done." 

Thus, Mr. President, I have simply and briefly alluded to those 
points in the character and history of our deceased friend that should 
be a lesson to the living, inspiring a laudable ambition and stimu- 
lating to successful achievement. 

And here too, as we engrave " rest in peace " on the tomb of my 
predecessor, comes the note of warning and instruction. As one by 
one our colleagues pass behind the dark curtain and as day by day 
we behold the mighty procession moving on, out of the sunlight and 
starlight into the shadows of the great unknown, there comes the 
voice of admonition to — 

Work while it is day : for the night cometh, when no man can work. 

Mr. President, as a further testimonial of respect to the memory 
of the deceased, I move that the Senate do now adjourn. 

The motion was agreed to unanimously ; and (at two o'clock p. m.) 
the Senate adjourned. 



PROCEEDIN^GS 



HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 



ANNOUNCEMENT. 



MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE. 

A message was received from the Senate, by Mr. Sympson, one 
of its Clerks, announcing the proceedings of that body on the death 
of Lewis V. Bogy, late a Senator from Missouri. 

DEATH OF THE LATE LEWIS V. BOGY. 

The SPEAKER laid the resolutions before the House; and 
they were read as follows : 

In the Senate of the United States, 

January IG, 1878. 

Resolved, That the Senate has received with profound sorrow tlio announcement 
of the death of Hon. Lewis V. Bogy, late a Senator of the United States from the 
State of Missouri. 

Resolved, That, as a mark of respect to the memory of Hon. Lewis V. Bogy, the 
business of the Senate be now suspended, that his former associates may pay proper 
tribute to his public and private virtues. 

Resolved, That, as a further mark of respect for the memory of the deceased, the 
members of the Senate will wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days. 

Ordered, That the Secretary communicate these resolutions to the House of Rep- 
resentatives. 

Mr. COLE. I move that these resolutions lie on the table; and 
I respectfully give notice that on next Wednesday at three o'clock 
I will call them up. 

The SPEAKER. In the absence of objection it will bo so 
ordered. 



Wednesday, January ^3, 1878. 

DEATH OF SENATOR BOGY. 

The SPEAKER. The hour of three o'clock having been fixed 
as the time for taking up the resolutions of the Senate in relation 
to the death of the late Senator Bogy, of Missouri, and that hour 
having arrived, the Clerk will read the resolutions of the Senate. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

In the Senate op the United States, 

January 16, 1878. 

Resolved, That the Senate has received with profound sorrow the announcement 
of the death of Hon. Lewis V. Bogy, late a Senator of tlie United States from the 
State of Missouri. 

Resolved, That, as a mark of respect to the memory of Hon. Lewis V. Bogy, the 
business of the Senate be now suspended, that his former associates may pay proper 
tribute to his public and private virtues. 

Resolved, That, as a further mark of respect to the memory of the deceased, the 
members of the Senate will wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days. 

Ordered, That the Secretary communicate these resolutions to the House of Rep- 
resentatives. 



ADDRESSES, 



Address of Mr. Cole, of Missouri. 

Mr. Speakee : Standing in tlie darlc shadow of a great sorrow it 
is fitting that there should be a truce to all divisions ; that, meeting 
to-day upon a common sacred ground, we may with fervent words 
of unfeigned sorrow repeat the story of a useful life. If there be 
animosities let them give place to better thoughts. If there be 
enmities let them depart this sacred spot while here we join clean 
hands over the grave of the departed one whose deeds, whose words 
are now the priceless heritage of his countrymen. Thus doing we 
may pluck from sorrow's crown some precious flower fragrant with 
the perfumes of a charity which shall sweeten the memories of him 
we mourn and breathe upon all hearts the impulse toward a better 
life. 

A generation, Mr. Speaker, has passed away since first I had the 
pleasure of meeting Lewis Vital Bogy, then verging toward 
manhood's prime estate and giving evidence of that leadership to 
which his genius impelled him, the full fruition of which he after- 
ward realized. In that long acquaintance I trust I learned in some 
degree to appreciate the excellences which so well adorned his 
character. Let this then be my apology, if one were needed, for 
thus detaining you for a few moments that I may express, however 
imperfectly, those words of sorrow for the loss which our common 
country has sustained ; as well as endeavor to exalt those virtues 
which he so happily possessed. 

Nature had endowed our friend with a form of manly dignity 
and a face of remarkable suavity and impressive benevolence. 

Death found strange beauty on that polished brow and dashed it out. 

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46 ADDRESS OF MR. COLE ON THE 

I need not refer to his remarkably pleasing manners; they were 
the admiration of all who met him; added to which his courtly 
yet modest bearing at once stamped him as the finished American 
gentleman in every sense. These gifts and graces, so much admired, 
were supplemented by a mind naturally strong and gifted, and 
which had been trained not in the halls of academic lore under the 
ripening touch of learned professors, but in his converse with 
nature, his contact with men and things, and in the brief hours of 
study snatched from the intervals of toil and earnest conflict with 
the events of life. Like so many of our countrymen who have 
reached great heights of distinction and honor, he, too, toiled up 
by thorny paths, steep and rugged ways, often almost despairing 
of reaching the coveted goal, yet always pressing on, if possible to 
secure the prize. 

The senatorial seat to which he aspired in the day-dreams of 
youth with patriotic longings, after an almost life-time struggle, at 
length he gained. Hence, having struggled on and up, the disci- 
pline acquired only the more thoroughly fitted him to sympathize 
with all in every grade through which he passed. How well, there- 
fore, he filled his place his compeers have not shunned to say, and 
while to-day they miss his manly form, fetill more do they miss his 
wise counsels, sagacious judgment, and intelligent interpretation of 
the popular will. 

His industry was of the highest type, work was his natural ele- 
ment, and his busy brain was apparently tireless in the tasks to 
which he addressed himself in his public duties. 

His fidelity to his convictions was simply the exhibition of that 
remarkable integrity of character which adorned his life and shed 
upon it a light of unfading luster. This same characteristic gave 
strength to his public life, inspired confidence in all who came under 



LIFE AND CHAEACTER OF LEWIS V. BOGY. 47 

his influence, and gave him a remarkable power over not only his 
own political associates, but also over his opponents. 

I would not, Mr, Speaker, wish to lift the veil of sanctified do- 
mestic life or peer within the portals of that home now shrouded in 
sorrow; but allow me to say it was the home of joy, of confidence, of 
affection, as beautiful and pure as earth possessed. 

To the Father of all we would commend this deeply stricken 
household. The loving words and tender acts of human sympathy 
are too feeble to reach the deep and painful grief caused by the re- 
moval of one so loved, so honored, in the home which he cherished 
with such tender affection. 

To sum up the character of our friend would be to say that in 
him we find the wise counsellor and advocate, the high-minded, in- 
telligent merchant, banker, and manufacturer, the statesman at once 
fearless and independent, incorruptible and patriotic. 

In the immediate family connection we behold the devoted son, 
the tender brother, the fond father, the loving husband. As a friend, 
steadfast and immovable, careful, considerate, and obliging. 

With all these virtues, however, he, too, must bow to that sure 
fate which is the lot of all. That pale-faced messenger which hangs 
upon our pathway cannot be appeased by accomplishments, either 
of person or mind, however beautiful or illustrious. 

While to be able to say these things with truthfulness in some 
measure mitigates the sorrow for our loss and lends encouragement 
for us to imitate him in their acquirement, at the same time it 
teaches how great the loss his friends, his family, and his country 
have sustained. 

May the lessons of his life inspire us with higher resolves, morci 
fervent aspirations for usefulness, stronger desires for the attainment 
of excellences of character. May his death admonish us that life 



48 ADDRESS OF MR. WADDELL OK THE 



is the span of man's activities, and that whatsoever the hand findeth 
to do we should do it with our might, that it may be said of us, as 
we say of him, he did what he could. 

Life's a debtor to the grave. 

Dark lattice, letting in eternal day. 

Time speeds us each with swift and tireless flight toward the land 
of shadows and forgetfulness. Whatever may be said or thought 
of us when life's transient day is o'er, may it be our lot to leave 
behind the heritage of a good name, the legacy of a life well spent, 
and to reach 

That shore 
Where storms are hushed, where tempests never rage ; 

Where angry skies and blackening seas no more 
With gusty strength their roaring warfare wage; 

By them its peaceful margents shall be trod, 
Their home be heaven, and their friend be God. 



Address of Mr. V/ADDELL, of North Carolina. 

Mr. Speaker: Forty-six years ago a youth of nineteen years of 
age, whose opportunities for advancement had been very few, whose 
means were scant, and whose prospects seemed to be in no degree 
flattering, wrote a letter to his mother, to whom he was devoted 
throughout his life, in which he expressed a determination to repre- 
sent his native State of Missouri in the Senate of the United States 
before he was sixty years old. It was regarded as only the utter- 
ance of a youthful dreamer whose castle in the air would soon 
vanish before the blighting blast of adversity; but there was in the 
boy what fighters call "the staying quality," and it soon began to 
develop itself. Passing through the Black Hawk war as a private 
soldier, he studied law, and in 1835 stepped well-shod into that 
highway along which cluster most abundantly public honors in this 



LIFE AND CHARACTER OF LEWIS V. BOGY. 49 



country. Advancing rapidly and gathering fortune as he went, 
but encountering frequently defeat and disappointment, he kept his 
gaze fixed upon the goal of his youth, and finally, before the close 
of his sixtieth year, wrote his name in the other end of this Capitol — 
Lewis V. Bogy, Senator from Missouri. 

What a lesson is here ! I come not to speak the language which 
so fittingly becomes surviving friendship on an occasion like this, 
for it was not my privilege to enjoy that relation in an especial 
manner toward him who "has fallen asleep." I am performing an 
office of respect and friendship for the living, upon whose sugges- 
tion I speak; and in the discharge of this duty, while yielding 
homage to the many virtues, private and public, which all unite in 
ascribing to him, this remarkable exhibition of dauntless courage 
and tireless devotion throughout a long life to the attainment of a 
high and honorable distinction seems to me to be most worthy of 
conunent. It is a record eminently proper to place before the youth 
of our land for emulation. The spirit which animated him who 
made it, is the spirit which always has and always will conquer the 
world. He who possesses it has within him the prime element of 
greatness, which no obstacle can baffle, no danger appal, and which 
death can only destroy. Nay, sir, death itself destroys it not, for, 
stripped of its earthly fetters, it soars immortal toward its home. 
At no period of our history could the cultivation of this spirit be 
more wisely urged or its illustration by such examples be more ap- 
propriately alluded to than at this time, when all the depressing 
and demoralizing influences of prostrate industries and paralyzed 
commerce are at work among us ; when singleness of purpose, un- 
flagging perseverance toward noble ends, and high moral courage 
are so sorely needed. These were the characteristics which marked 
the life of the dead Senator. Let us imitate them. 



50 ADDRESS OF MR. HATCHER ON THE 

jNIr. Speaker, since you and I came for the first time to take our 
places in this Chamber there have been a score of seats made vacant 
by the rider of the pale horse. He has reaped a rich harvest in the 
splendid halls of this building. 

To the past go moi'e dead faces 

Every year; 
As the loved leave vacant places, 

Every year. 

Standing here and reflecting upon these things^ let us heed the 
noble utterance of one of our immortal countrymen : " ' Duty ' is 
the sublimest word in our language." These ceremonies may soon 
be performed for you and me; and, if so, our friends can pay us no 
higher tribute than to say that here and everywhere we did our duty. 

Yes, the shores of life are shifting, 

Every year, 
And we are seaward drifting. 

Every year. 
Old places, changing, fret us, 
The living more forget us. 
There are fewer to regret us. 

Every year. 

But the truer life draws nigher. 

Every year. 
And its morning star climbs higher, 

Every year ; 
Earth's hold on us grows slighter, 
And the heavy burden lighter, 
And the dawn immortal brighter. 
Every year. 



Address of Mr. Hatcher, of Missouri. 

Mr. Speaker : It is fitting that I should pay my humble tribute 
to the memory of the distinguished Senator from Missouri, who, 
since our last assembling, has been called to his long home. 

I represent the district in which he was born. Sixty-four years 
ago, in the old town of Sainte Genevieve, his eyes first opened to the 



LIFE AND CHARACTER OF LEWIS V. BOGY. 51 

light of day; and, sir, I do not in the least exceed the language of 
sober truth when I declare that there was not a resident of that ven- 
erable old hamlet who did not feel in the loss of Senator Bogy a 
personal bereavement. He had endeared himself to her people by 
a youth full of promise, a middle age of abundant enterprise and 
activity, in which they profited, and, later, by an official prominence 
which they seemed in one sense to share. 

They mourned a man whom they knew, a man of honorable aspi- 
rations, of well-tempered ambition, of ingrained honesty, of stead- 
fastness to friends, and incapable of doing intentional wrong even 
to an enemy. 

Sainte Genevieve has given to the country many names that have 
been written high upon the tablet of fame — names that the nation 
deUghts to honor and will continue through all time to revere. I 
have only time to recall such as have served in this or the other 
House of Congress. 

Commencing with John Scott, who for twelve years was a Dele- 
gate and Representative in this House from the Territory and State 
of Missouri ; Governor Henry Dodge, who came to Sainte Genevieve, 
then the most prominent settlement of the new Territory, a mere 
boy. He served in and was a hero of both the war of 1812 and 
the Black Hawk war, one of the most sanguinary of our Indian 
conflicts. Governor Dodge was a delegate from the Territory of 
Wisconsin, afterward its governor, and when largely by his efforts 
the State was admitted into the Union he became its first Senator, 
serving in that capacity for nine years. 

General Augustus C. Dodge was also born in Sainte Genevieve. 
He was the first delegate to Congress from the new Territory of 
Iowa, its first Senator, and afterward our minister to Spain. 

Dr. Lewis F. Linn, who came to Sainte Genevieve with his half- 



52 ADDRESS OF UR. HATCHER OX THE 

brother, Governor Dodge, when but an infant, and lived there until 
his death, served for ten years as Senator from Missouri, being 
elected the last time by the unanimous vote of her Legislature. 

Ex-senator George W. Jones, who emigrated to Sainte Genevieve 
when a lad six years of age, was educated with Senator Bogy, and 
served as the last delegate in Congress from Michigan Territory, 
and was for twelve years a Senator from Iowa. 

Enjoying both the example and confidence of these distinguished 
men it is not strange that Senator Bogy in his mere youth should 
determine to attain to an eminence as marked as theirs ; a determina- 
tion which with characteristic candor he committed to writing and 
intrusted to a mother's kind and affectionate care. 

In this renowned village, a village still, but which at the date of 
Senator Bogy's birth bid fair to be the metropoHs of the great 
West, on the 9th day of April, 1813, our deceased friend was born. 

He has fought the good fight, he has finished the race, and we 
who survive him have assembled to do honor to his memory. All 
that is mortal of him has been consigned by loving hands to the 
old burying-ground at Saint Louis, where he now rests encircled by 
all but two of his children ; but his example lives to inspire us to 
worthier purposes and greater efforts. I do not claim for Senator 
Bogy that he outranked in fame and reputation the distinguished 
names I have recalled ; viewed in the light of what he accomplished 
it can hardly be asserted that he did. And yet, sir, I am sure that 
had his term of public service extended over as long a period he 
would have builded a reputation second to that of no other public 
man of the last quarter of a century. His gifts were not of a 
sho^vy order; on the contrary, they were solid, and of the highest 
value to his constituency and the nation at large. 

When he came to the Senate in 1873 he was entirely inexpe- 




rienced in legislative labors. More than thirty years ago he was for 
a brief period a member of his State assembly, and since that time 
he had been employed almost exclusively in practical business life ; 
and yet, sir, such was his facility of adaptation, so prominent his 
sturdy sense, his devotion to principle, his candor, and so marked 
his determination and ability to master the duties of his high posi- 
tion, that almost insensibly, and certainly without exciting opposi- 
tion or inspiring envy, he steadily grew in the estimation and ap- 
preciation of his associates until he became, before half his term 
had expired, to be relied on as safe guide and counsellor, and was 
intrusted by his party associates with the gravest responsibilities. 

There was nothing of accident about all this. Those who knew 
him when the rather unexpected news of his election was first made 
known, confidently predicted the result that followed. They are 
not less secure in the belief that had his life been spared he would 
have steadily advanced to the first rank of statesmanship. 

What he did he did with his whole heart, might, mind, and 
strength. From the moment he entered Congress he devoted 
himself exclusively to the interests of his constituents, neglecting 
a large private business to the great detriment if not to the ruin of 
his personal fortune. He knew no other way. From the dull 
routine of the committee-rooms or other arduous duties connected 
with his honorable position his associates will testify he never 
attempted to escape. 

During the period of vacation, when his friends pleaded with 
liim to take the rest they felt he so much needed, he still labored 
untiringly. Through the entire presidential, campaign, although 
most eager to participate in the advocacy of principles which he 
felt must triumph if the nation was to live, he nevertheless followed 
the plain path of duty, spending his entire vacation in a laborious 



54 ADDRESS OF MR. PHILLIPS ON THE 



examination of the silver question, which had been assigned by the 
Senate to a mixed commission, of which he was made a member. 

Had he even so much as evaded this single task and taken an 
ocean voyage, as advised by his physicians, it is the opinion of his 
friends that he would have been restored to the robust health whicli 
was then attacked for the first time by the malaria of this latitude. 
As he lived he died, discharging to the last, and with his best 
efforts, the duties imposed on him. And when the summons came, 
dreadful to all but him, serenely he laid down the burden of life 
and passed through the shadow of the valley. There were no un- 
manly repuiings, no complaints of opportunities neglected, of wasted 
time, of lost occasions. With a calm confidence in the sure reward 
that awaited him, he folded up the book of life and bound it with 
the golden clasp of faith in a glorious immortality. To us he is 
no more. To these halls and to our councils he is forevermore a 
stranger. The places that have known him once shall know him 
no more forever. Nothing is left but his memory and example. 
Long shall we of his native State cherish the one and emulate the 
other. 



Address of Mr. PHILLIPS, of Kansas. 

Mr. Speaker: There are occasions in life which, like the mile- 
stones on the highway, make us pause to measure the road we have 
passed, and to estimate that which may be before us. Death 
appeals to our sensibilities and rebukes our prejudices. Can any- 
thing so inevitable be considered a calamity. There is no misfor- 
tune in death save when it snaps in two what might have been a 
long and honorable life. Death is sometimes attended by horrible 



LIFE AND CHARACTER OF LEWIS V. BOGY. 55 



and appalling circumstances, but there is nothing in death or its 
worst surroundings so truly appalling as a useless, purposeless life. 
To-day Congress pauses in its work ; the great law-making mill, 
grinding nerve and brain, comes to a halt. It stops to pay a tribute 
to a dead Senator ; to speak of liim. Who was he? What was he? 
He represented a great State, the neighbor of my own. Under our 
representative form of government he was the chosen voice for a 
million and a half of people. Who shall say he was an inconse- 
quential thing or an accident. He was selected for something. 
That something, like himself, makes part of our history not 
unworthy of the high place they held. The dead Senator of whom 
we speak to-day was the most distinctive, clear-cut type of one of 
the most remarkable elements that have blended in modem Amer- 
ican civilization. 

Two hundred years ago a young Frenchman left the outposts ^f 
the French settlements on the Lakes, and entering the Mississippi 
Yalley by the Wisconsin River, explored the father of waters. 
The great valley lay like a sealed book to the enterprise and genius 
of the European. Long centuries before ancient civilizations had 
made that valley resound to their feet. They had passed away and 
nothing remained of them save myth and legend, and those vast 
mounds where they worshipped God under the symbols of fire and 
the sun. The rains and storms of centuries had beat upon them 
but not washed them away, and now great forest trees clung to 
them as if to consecrate them with the hoary beard of father Time. 
Who were the builders? What were they? Over the fairy land- 
scape bands of wandering nomads roved. Their fathers had blotted 
out an ancient agricultural race in blood, long, long ago, and now 
they flitted about like the ghosts of better things— Ishmaelites who 
had no abiding place and left no mark upon the earth. 



56 ADDRESS OF MR. PHILLIPS ON THE 

The great eye of a sleepless God was upon it. With the infinite 
beneficence that said, "Let there be light/' he decreed that once 
more the grandest valley in all the world should be the home of 
myriads of happy men and women. 

Father James Marquette, a young Frenchman of aristocratic 
family, born on the banks of the Oise, educated in the bosom of 
the church, devoted to the society of Jesus ere he reached man's 
estate, the inspirations of his mind seem to have grasped the genius 
and self-sacrifice of Loyola. It is not necessary to suppose he 
could have comprehended the great results of the forms of society 
of which he was the beginning. Cole in his imaginative paintings, 
the voyage of life, depicts a youth gliding down the river of time, 
drinking in the ever new and changeful landscape on its banks. 
It is a dream of a wonderful voyage, but not so wonderful as the 
voyage of Marquette. It was a new world, and this was its first 
day. He glided by the mouth of many a river that has now hun- 
dreds of towns and cities on its banks. Then a deep sleep had 
fallen upon it, deeper than that which fell on Adam ere Eve was 
created. 

Four centuries before another adventurer had entered that valley 
from the lower end. De Soto had come with the pomp and cir- 
cumstance of war. His hand was against every man, every man's 
hand against him. He sought another Peru or INIexico to rob. 
To them God seemed but to have made empires to be the victims 
of banditti. Discovery was a better title than possession. Avarice 
was the main-spring, merciless cruelty the fruit. They came flushed 
with great expectations, and it took years of toil, privation, and 
suffering to consume and destroy those hopes. Broken in body and 
spirit, De Soto was buried in the mighty river, and the remnant of 
his wretched followers were driven out of it by the men of Quegalto. 



LIFE AND CHARACTER OF LEWIS V. BOGY. 



57 



Well might the Indian warriors shout and sing as they drove 
out the wretched Spaniards ! That victory secured them from the 
invaders for four generations. One hundred and forty years passed 
away ere the canoe Marquette floated on the river. He came in a 
different way. He stood among them without a weapon, the mes- 
senger of the Prince of Peace. He brought European religion and 
European civilization, and wherever the foot of the Frenchman 
touched the earth, as from seed sown, French settlements sprung 
up. He hauled up his pirogue near the spot where the town of 
Sainte Genevieve now stands, and there of that race and stock, the 
subject of these eulogies was born. Lewis Vital Bogy was in 
all things intensely a Frenchman, and yet in every element of his 
character as intensely the western American. A Frenchman of the 
better class, educated, nervous, active. He had all the polished 
urbanity of his race and the gentleness of a woman wedded to the 
hardy vigor of the frontiersman. Something in the clear, bracing 
western atmosphere seems to have developed a new type of man. 

The old French settlements had two classes, one of great intellect, 
vigor, enterprise — the Lacledes, Choteaus, Bogys, Menards, Vitals. 
I need not enumerate; these represented the class. Their names 
are marked on the geography of the whole western country. There 
was not a locality too remote for their enterprise and business. 
There was not a river or lake but echoed to the paddles of their 
batteaus. There was not an Indian tribe so hostile or barbarous 
that they were not familiar with them. There was not a mountain 
gorge inaccessible to their genius and skill. There was not a valley 
where they did not build trading posts and forts. They represented 
the best blood of old France, the genius and power of new France. 
They laid the foundation of a great empire. In its vigorous youth 
they did their full share in its sterner battles, and as the symmetry 



58 ADDRESS OF IMR. PHILLIPS ON THE 

of our new forms of society assume their power and grandeur they 
hold their place, and blend into a broad new Americanism with the 
fragments of other nationalities, and perhaps the last distinct type 
that will ever enter the American Congress was Lewis Vital Bogy. 

The other element of the early French settlements was the Arca- 
dian peasant. A mixture of Indian inertia and French philosophic 
simplicity. There was old Kaskaskia, or as we used to call it, 
" Kasky," Cahoka, Prairie du Rocher, Sainte Grenevieve, Vincennes, 
Cape Girardeau. Well do I remember them all when a boy. I 
have heard the old Kaskaskians say that after Saint Louis was 
started the people there came to "Kasky" to buy goods. Ah, 
these were the happy, primitive days. They cultivated com in the 
"big field" where each family had a few acres. They caught wild 
ponies on the point. They worshipped in a chapel almost as old as 
Philadelphia, when the bell rang. They celebrated holidays and 
saints' days, and would observe them for any saint kind enough to give 
them one. Their towns were not laid out after the pattern of a multi- 
plication table. Their lives were not mathematical problems with 
everything carried and nothing over. They had leisure. They were 
not ground in the mill of Moloch. They danced in Pewhingi to the 
music of Rafael Mart, and ran horse-races. Their wants were few, 
their labors light. They ate, they drank, they danced, and tliey died. 

There came a change. Those who had founded hamlets and 
villages were swept away by those who founded cities and great 
States. "Kasky" lost the seat of government, the county seat. 
Even the sisters fled from her in the flood of 1844. The energetic 
and enterprising left for new centers, and "Kasky" and Cahoka 
became rustier than ever, and existed merely that antiquities might 
be said to exist in the country. 

Mr. Bogy's father was born in Kaskaskia, but moved to the 



LIFE AND CHARACTER OF LEWIS V. BOGY. 59 

town of Sainte Genevieve, which is just a few miles distant over 
the river. In 1766 the left bank of the Mississippi was ceded by 
France to Britain, and in the war of the Revolution came to the 
United States. The Spaniards held the country beyond the right 
bank. The elder Bogy was connected with the most enterprising 
families in both towns and held responsible positions under the 
Spanish government. In 1813 Lewis Vital Bogy was born. 
In early life he indicated the thrift and energy which marked his 
whole career and which are so sadly lacking in the youth of the 
present day. He began life clerking in a store at a salary of $200 
a year. Then he went to study law with old Judge Pope, in Kas- 
kaskia. He came of a stock that might well have been excused for 
putting on airs. Did he merely loaf around a lawyer's office under 
pretense of reading law? Old Judge Pope had a coal-bank on 
Mary's River, a dozen miles or more from Kaskaskia. There the 
young Bogy went part of his time, superintending the miners and 
reading the books selected by the judge. It was ride and tie 
between Sisyphus and Blackstone. I wish the young men of to- 
day would remember these lessons. The man who starts business 
in that way is very liable to succeed. Afterward he attended the 
law school at Lexington, Kentucky. 

Entering his career at man's estate he cast his fortune in Saint 
Louis. He was closely identified with its struggles, growth, pros- 
perity. Nor did he limit his work to the city. He did more than 
any other man to develop the mineral resources of Missouri, and 
for these she is chiefly famous. He expended nearly a million of 
dollars in building the Iron Mountain Railroad. He helped build 
his State, and it was fitting he should represent her. He carried 
to public position what he had shown in private life: business 
habits and a carefully trained legal mind. 



60 ADDRESS OF MR. PHILLIPS ON THE 

Since my boyhood I have watched all the great devolopment of 

the Mississippi Valley. In Saint Louis, not long ago, I left my 

hotel to walk out on the bridge, that grandest monument of human 

genius. Its foundations are a hundred feet deep in the channel of 

the river. Grand in its strength, beautiful in its symmetry, lifted 

heavenward above the mighty flood, as I stood and looked from its 

summit 

Visions of things that have long since fled 
Went over my brain lilt c ghosts of the dead. 

I remembered when a boy I entered that city almost forty years 
ago. Then when you got to Fourth and Fifth streets you came to 
bushes, and Choteau's pond was before you. Now I looked over that 
great city throbbing with the mighty struggle of commercial life. 
Then I remembered there was not a railroad in that country, and 
that we struggled in through a mud unparalleled beyond the Amer- 
ican bottom. Now the trains thundered in on twenty railroads, and 
made everything quiver as they swept over the great bridge. Away 
down the river lay the fleets of vessels and barges. The banks were 
environed by elevators, warehouses, wharves. Who planted and 
reared this commerce? Who built this city? Who developed this 
power and empire in the Mississippi Valley of which that city is the 
signet seal? Who were they? What were they? 

My mind was carried back to the primitive days of old Cahoka 
and Kaskaskia ; to the time when the men of Saint Louis went there 
to buy goods; back to the time when the scattered French settle- 
ments were all there was of European civilization in the Mississippi 
Valley; back, back, until I could almost fancy I saw the skiff* of 
Marquette floating down the river. 

Is there value in retrospect? We clutch these fragments close to 
us while we breathe a prayer for the future of our country and mur- 



mur : " Yesterday, to-day, and forever." Over the graves of the emi- 
nent dead, of whom these works are but the handwriting, we pause 
to think. My own State had its troubles with Missouri in their time, 
and I am too proud of that history to shed any tears on it; but, the 
past redeemed and sanctified, we stand by the grave to admire and 
sorrow with our sister State. Gratified at her prosperity, emulous 
of her enterprise, I for Kansas lay a chaplet of friendship and 
esteem on the grave of Lewis Vital Bogy. 



Address of Mr. Knott, of Kentucky. 

A variety of circumstances, Mr. Speaker, seems to render it 
peculiarly appropriate that I should avail myself of the present 
mournful occasion to pay a brief but just tribute to the memory of 
the patriot and statesmen whose public services we would gratefully 
commemorate and whose private virtues we would embalm forever 
in the records of our country for the benefit of those who are to 
succeed us here when we too shall have gone to that undiscovered 
country from whose bourne no traveler returns. He was not only 
a native of the State within whose borders, a friendless wanderer, I 
stepped upon the threshold of manhood, and whose generous people 
I will remember with gratitude and affection as long as the vital 
current animates this frame, but as the well-earned reward for a long 
and busy career of usefulness in her service, his brow was crowned 
with her brightest honors when touched by the icy finger of death. 

And more than this, it was in my own native State and among 
those who have repeatedly honored me with a seat on this floor that 
he fixed the finishing links in his armor and entered upon that 
long and honorable career of which you have already been told so 



62 ADDRESS OF ME. KNOTT ON THE 

eloquently and so truthfully by his colleagues who have preceded me. 
But more than all, "he was my friend, faithful and just to me." 

My personal acquaintance with Mr. Bogy commenced over 
twenty years ago, and although the relations between us from that 
time to the hour of his death were of the most kind and cordial 
nature, what I would here record concerning the more distinguish- 
ing traits in his character shall be freed as far as possible from the 
tinge of partial friendship, for I know that even the voice of affec- 
tion cannot "soothe the dull, cold ear of death," and I would scorn 
to mock the memory of my friend with the language of fulsome 
adulation which if living he would despise. 

The most striking feature in the character of Mr. Bogy, the one 
which more than all othei-s distinguished him in his public and pri- 
vate relations in life, the one indeed which furnishes the key to his 
remarkably successful career, was his earnest, active, unfaltering 
fealty to duty. Whether as the school-teacher in the quiet shades 
of a rural district in Kentucky or the busy lawj^er in the teeming 
metropolis of his native State ; whether as member of the common 
council of Saint Louis or of the Senate of the United States, what- 
ever duty demanded at his hands he set himself about with all the 
energy of his nature and all the powers of his mind. 

If duty called him to defend liis conscientious convictions of truth 
and right, whether on the hustings or in the halls of legislation, 
whatever was the sacrifice to himself, whether triumph lured him 
with its fascinating laurels or defeat stared him sternly in the face, 
whatever of time or money or honest effort it might cost, he flung 
himself boldly into the arena and bore himself bravely and gallantly 
in the contest. 

This unwavering fealty to duty resulted no doubt from the ardent, 
impulsive, generous disposition for which he was peculiarly conspic- 



LIFE AND CHAEACTER OF LEWIS V. BOGY. 63 

uous^ coupled with an exquisite sense of honor which, influenced by 
a careful religious education, kept his conscience ever singularly 
sensitive to the various obligations imposed by his public and pri- 
vate associations. 

The same ardent and impulsive temperament, while it imparted 
the warm glow of devoted affection to his domestic relations, 
made him the earnest, active, enthusiastic friend, the enterprising, 
public-spirited citizen, proud of the grandeur and devoted to the 
progress of his native State, and the Senator whose patriotism com- 
prehended the interests and aspired to promote the prosperity of the 
entire country. 

He died as he had lived, a faithful, conscientious, consistent 
member of the Catholic Church, without a single stain upon his 
escutcheon as a dutiful son, an affectionate husband, a kind and 
indulgent father, a faithful friend, a generous neighbor, a good 
citizen, a devoted patriot, an unsullied statesman, an honest man, 
and a Christian gentleman. 



Address of Mr. Sparks, of Illinois. 

Mr. Speaker: When men die who were dignified by high trusts 
involving great responsibilities to the public, it is eminently fitting 
that our eulogies upon them should be marked by a spirit of sincerity 
and truthfulness. And if there were no elements of character pos- 
sessed by them to arrest attention and command commendation, it 
were better that they should be protected by the charitable shield 
of silence. 

Responding cordially to this sentiment and governed by a conscien- 
tious responsibility for my utterances, I deem it a duty to speak in 



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eulogy of the life and character of the deceased Senator, in respect 
for whose memory the resolutions now before us were offered. 

I knew him for several years quite well, and know sufficient of 
his early life and peculiar characteristics to speak with some confi- 
dence of the influences that developed his active and eventful man- 
hood. 

He was a descendant of Illinois ancestors. Of him we have the 
somewhat astonishing announcement to make that he, a man of sixty- 
five years of age, was the son of native-born Illinois parents. 

Senator Bogy, according to my estimate of him, was not by nature 
a great genius, nor was he what is popularly denominated a brilliant 
or highly cultivated man, and, in my judgment, to attribute these 
qualities to him would be not only untruthful but do injustice to 
his memory. 

He was a western man, and possessed in a high degree the peculiar 
characteristics of a pioneer civilization. Born and reared in the 
midst of the unbroken wilderness, he was characterized by a rugged, 
fearless nature that marked him in every stage of life and in every 
pursuit in which he engaged as a strong, bold, and aggressive ax;tor. 

Such a man could not be confined to precise technical formulas nor 
brought within the range of severe methodical rules. But in that 
strength and courage that grasp and solve great practical questions 
of a public or private character, there were few men in this country 
his equal. 

In the judgment of those most intimately acquainted with him 
and of those who cherish his memory most fondly his character was 
marked mainly by three distinguishing qualities : courage, integrity, 
and Christian faith. 

As to his courage, no man who ever looked into his eye and caught 
a gleam of its firm and fixed determination could doubt that its pos- 



LIFE AND CHARACTER OF LEWIS V. BOGY. 65 

scssor was a man strong in purpose and fearless in execution, one 
whose objects sustained by conscientious convictions would be as- 
serted with a resolution and intrepidity that no ordinary obstruc- 
tions could defeat. 

His integrity is written upon every page of a long life illustrated 
by prominent public action and varied and important business enter- 
prises, during the whole course of which, in the language of his suc- 
cessor in the Senate, who had known him intimately for more tlian 
a third of a century, "his personal integrity and high sense of honor 
were never questioned." 

Senator Bogy was also a man of deep and earnest convictions, and 
these convictions, always formed cautiously and with painstaking 
care, became to him fixed and lasting rules of action. 

In this connection I propose briefly to speak of his Christian faith. 
His family were of French origin, and all of them of the Roman 
Catholic religion. It was, therefore, his inherited faith. Baptized 
in infancy by a priest of that church and nurtured carefully in child- 
hood by a devout and pious mother, he became ardently devoted to 
it. In fact, it was in his religion more strongly than elsewhere that 
we have a striking proof of his strong, inflexible nature. To it he 
clung with an unyielding tenacity and a sincere and ardent devotion 
through the whole course of a busy and eventful life. Tolerant always 
of the opinions of others on all subjects, the special advocate of an 
unlimited religious toleration, and in all things fully up to the pro- 
gressive age in which he lived, for himself he demanded, as a Christian 
man, the right to worship God according to his own conscience ; and 
in. the exercise of that right he sought his spiritual guide in the 
communion of the church that represented the faith of his ancestors. 
To him a reformation that attacked the dogmas of faith of the 
universal church was a revolution, which, however kindly his 



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sympathies might be extended toward the sincere and pious men 
who proclaimed it, was a source of division and discord, fruitful 
only of disorganizing and disintegrating influences. 

To him the church of his fathers was really and truly a "rule and 
guide of faith," and a refuge secure and safe from the storms of 
rival contentions and of angry disputations. To him it was the ampli- 
fication and ever-existing representatives of the faith of the small 
circle of humble followers who stood around the Great Master on 
the borders of the Sea of Gralilee and received from His divine lips 
the exalted Christian commission of unity, sanctity, apostolicity, and 
catholicity. 

To a man possessed of a moral courage like his and with convic- 
tions such as these, angry protestations and sneering denials were 
each and all alike unavailing. 

Sir, this is not a fitting place nor appropriate occasion to enter 
the fiicld of religious controversy to determine whether his faith was 
wisely or unwisely founded; but I submit, with much confidence 
in the favorable judgment of the good men of every creed, that its 
sincerity and ardent zeal demand the highest admiration. 

Mr. Speaker, I am quite sure that it would be a consolation to 
us if we could now know that, when the deep shadows of death 
shall have obscured us, kind friends could then truthfully say that 
in life we possessed that courage that never quailed in human pres- 
ence; that, panoplied in the strength of an honest manhood, we 
always asserted and maintained a fearless and undaunted equality ; 
but that, in the presence of the Great Judge, with head uncovered 
and heart deeply humbled, we yielded ever the obedience and devo- 
tion of little children. 

Sir, we would like, when that solemn hour comes, that it could 
be truthfully said of us that, with an unwavering faith and a trust 



LIFE AND CHARACTER OF LEWIS V. BOGY. 67 

and confidence that no storms could shake, we embarked on the 
mystic river without a doubt and without a fear as to the bright 
harbor to be reached on its unseen shore beyond. 

I feel, sir, on this occasion and in this presence, that so far as 
human knowledge extends, I am warranted in saying this of Sen- 
ator Bogy. 



Address of Mr. Throckmorton, of Texas. 

Mr. Speaker: As a friend of the lamented Senator whose death 
we this day deplore, I propose to contribute something that may 
serve, in a slight degree, to perpetuate in the memory of those who 
are to come after us the high qualities of head and heart possessed 
by that good and amiable man. 

As the executive of Texas during a period of the deepest gloom 
and humiliation of the people, it became my duty to open a corre- 
spondence with the national authorities relative to the Indians on the 
borders of that State ; that correspondence touching not only the 
conduct of the wild tribes then making war on our people, but also 
the condition of small bands who had never lifted their hands 
against the white race of the country, but who had by their long 
and sturdy friendship for the white people provoked and brought 
upon themselves the hatred and deadly enmity of the hostile tribes. 

Senator Bogy was at that time Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 
and through my correspondence with him my first acquaintance 
was formed and my first conception of his high qualities of charac- 
ter derived. 

The position held was one of grave responsibility, and its duties 
then, as now, were both delicate and difficult. The officer charged 
with the supervision of the relations existing between the Govern- 



68 ADDRESS OF MR. THROCKMORTON ON THE 

meut and the people of the United States and the aboriginal nations 
of the country, embracing in the aggregate three hundred thousand 
souls, distributed into a great number of tribes and scattered along 
a border extending from Texas to Alaska and covering an area of 
many thousands of miles, should be possessed of the highest order 
of administrative ability, coupled with a humane heart and a mind 
of rare discrimination. Such characteristics I believe belonged to 
Senator Bogy in an eminent degree. 

The partial acquaintance formed under the circumstances to which 
I have referred was renewed and ripened when we subsequently met 
in these halls, he as a Senator and I as a Representative of our re- 
spective States. 

The favorable estimate originally formed of his character was 
strengthened and confirmed by subsequent personal intercourse and 
by a somewhat close observation of his career as a public man. 

He exhibited the same fullness and thoroughness of information 
upon public affairs, the same healthful, sober judgment of public 
measures, the same appreciation of the wants of the country and 
tender consideration of the claims of humanity, and the same reso- 
lute and independent discharge of the duties of public trust that I 
had before ascribed to him. 

In no one degree was I disappointed, but the estimate I had 
formed of his character was heightened by a personal acquaintance. 

Senator Bogy did not dazzle the country with his eloquence, nor 
attract attention to himself by sensational utterances or startling 
departures from the methods of the fathers, but he did impress upon 
the popular mind broad, generous, and humane views; did enlighten 
counsel, stimulate hope, and inspire confidence in the fortunes of the 
Republic by the brave, patient, and hopeful spirit that marked his 
public life. 



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As a public man he was fully alive to the wants of his own State, 
considerate and thoughtful of the necessities of the great West, an 
ardent advocate of liberal measures on the part of the General Gov- 
ernment calculated to promote the commerce of the Mississippi Val- 
ley, and warmly advocating such action on the part of the Govern- 
ment as would insure a speedy connection by means of railways 
between the Mississippi River and the distant States and Territories 
of the Government. But, ardent as he was in favor of measures 
promotive of the interests of his own immediate section, his patriot- 
ism and statesmanship were broad and liberal enough to embrace 
every section of our country. 

He was tenacious of his views, earnest in the advocacy of what 
he believed to be right, and energetic in whatever he undertook 
to accomplish. 

Senator BoGY was honest and capable. In his death the National 
Legislature has lost one of its most industrious and useful members 
and the country a citizen of the loftiest character, whose intelligent 
and conscientious discharge of duty entitles him to the love and 
respect of his countrymen. 



Address of Mr. Clark, of Missouri. 

Mr. Speaker : I should be unmindful of the strong promptings 
of love for a dead friend and indifferent to the duty I owe to the 
State which honored Senator Bogy with its highest trust, if I did 
not avail myself of the privilege of this occasion to testify my 
appreciation of his private worth and public virtues. 

Senator Bogy was a native Missourian, having been born at the 
French town of Sainte Genevieve in the year 1813, seven years 



70 ADDRESS OF MR. CLARK ON THE 

before the admission of the State of Missouri into the Union. He 
came of ancestors who settled in the far West more than a hundred 
years ago. While he was denied the opportunity and advantage 
of early intellectual training, he inherited that bold, self-reliant, 
and aspiring manhood which so distinguished those daring voyagcurs 
who conquered the great West from savage dominion and gave it to 
this generation to refine and build up into the wondrous civilization 
Avhich the Mississippi Valley presents to-day. 

From this rude and unpromising beginning he began his life- 
work with the energy and hopefulness of one who aspires to great 
achievements. When a boy he commenced the rigid system of self- 
culture and discipline which expanded a mind naturally strong so 
that he attained in early manhood a breadth and comprehensiveness 
of mind which made him a marked man in the political struggles 
of his State and gave promise of his future eminence. He was 
ambitious to be of service to his country but never a place-hunter, 
and was frequently chosen by his political friends to lead the forlorn 
hope of certain defeat, on which occasions he came to the front of 
battle upholding the banner of his party with a firmness and gal- 
lantry of the trained veteran. He was unusually active in his 
temperament, and took a deep interest in all that concerned his 
State, ever on the alert to defeat a policy which menaced the inter- 
ests of his constituents and unflinching in his zeal in the advocacy 
of all great measures which promised the development of industrial 
enterprise. 

While he was full of that sweet charity which made him tolerant 
of the opinions of others, always treating a political opponent with 
the most refined and princely courtesy, he was lion-like in his cour- 
ao-e and firm as the rock in the conviction that the fundamental 
principles of his party were the perfection of republican govern- 



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ment, always finding liim their consistent and uncompromising ad- 
herent — not the blind and blatant adlierence of the demagogue, but 
the earnest, conscientious follower of the convictions of his judg- 
ment. As in private life he acknowledged no higher law than 
devotion to duty, in political action he knew no higher law than 
the Constitution of his country, and sought only to satisfy his 
ambition by a faithful and laborious discharge of the trusts con- 
fided to his keeping. Hence his views of public policy were gen- 
erous, broad, and statesmanlike, looking to the good of his whole 
country rather than to classes and sections. 

He was not a finished speaker, but a rare and fascinating talker, 
and never failed to impress his views, both in conversation and de- 
bate, with marked originality and force. "With these characteristics 
he justly earned a national reputation during his short career in the 
United States Senate as an able and conscientious representative of 
his State. 

But as his public life and acts have been fully treated of by dis- 
tinguished gentlemen who have preceded me, I turn from that field 
to the more inviting and congenial theme of his private and social 
virtues, for it is with these that our dead friend is especially em- 
balmed in our memory. It is a task of love to speak of him as a 
friend, as a companion as well as a teacher and inspirer of laudable 
ambitions of his young associates, as the substantial friend of the 
weak and defenceless, the helper of the helpless, and as one of God's 
almoners of all the sweet charities of life. 

Few can miss the light of his presence and his unobtrusive coun- 
sel more than myself, who had learned not only to honor the sin- 
cerity of his purpose, his unswerving integrity, his fidelity to friends 
and convictions, but to love and revere him for his sweet amiability 
of character, his goodness of heart, his unaffected piety, in short 



72 ADDRESS OF ME. CLARK ON THE 

for all those qualities which rescue human nature from the sneers 
of the bad and cynical. He was a Missourian, proud of the State 
of his nativity and I justly proud of its confidence in him, always 
turning with a lover's eyes to the friends who had lifted him from 
obscurity to the highest honors in their gift. He had a keen sense 
of honor, with a sovereign and unfeigning contempt for all that 
was little and mean, and in the fearless loyalty of his heart never 
deserted a friend. 

But it was with the home-bred charities of the heart, in the sweet 
retiracy of domestic endearments, that our friend's character chiefly 
claims our admiration, always returning with ever-increasing relish 
to the delights and enjoyments of that sacred 'penetralia where 
loving wife and children pined for his return. 

When from his stricken associate at Richmond, Indiana, there 
reached him in the last days of his tenancy of a sorely-racked body 
a telegraphic message expressing solicitude to learn that he was im- 
proving, his eye lighted up with a smile of forgiveness and sympa- 
thy as he dictated an assuring response. Both, as it were, clasping 
forgfving hands on the borders of the unknown, have passed out 
to the pale realms from which we receive no responses, no tidings. 
The one, almost for a life-time in the forefront of battle, has been 
extravagantly praised and censoriously censured. The other, enter- 
ing official life but a few years ago, had but just begun to fulfill 
the expectancy of watchful friends. 

Opportunity, the handmaid of renown, had waited upon the one, 
and it was the belief of friends who knew Senator Bogy well in 
that greatest of arenas, the Senate, he would have found his oppor- 
tunity, had he been spared longer for the battle. Missouri may 
send men of equal or greater ability to that august body to which 
she has accredited a Benton, a Green, a Linn, and a Geyer, but she 



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will never place there a man of purer purpose, of a more exalted 
conception of his duties and responsibilities as a representative, of a 
more unbending integrity or unflinching patriotism than he whose 
loss we deplore, and whose memory we now commemorate. 



Address of Mr. Ellis, of Louisiana. 

Mr. Speaker : The lateness of the hour and the knowledge that 
others who perhaps can speak more intelligently than myself of the 
virtues of the illustrious dead are to follow me warns me that I 
must be brief. These virtues have been recited by tongues far more 
eloquent than mine. Missouri has come, and from the lips of her 
distinguished sons, who so well represent her honor and her inter- 
est, has voiced the great woe she feels as she stands to-day above 
the open-mouthed grave of her illustrious son. Other common- 
wealths have come, neighboring commonwealths, represented by 
those who knew the illustrious Senator better than myself and have 
spoken of him words that I wish I might as fittingly speak. But 
I do not deem it inappropriate that the voice of Louisiana should 
swell this funeral cry that goes up to-day, and that her tears should 
mingle with those that are falling upon this bier, for I do remember, 
sir, that when she was voiceless and silent here, when she was mis- 
represented at the other end of the Capitol, that Senator Bogy, in 
the hour of her peril and her trial, held with well-nerved arm the 
segis of the Constitution above her stricken form and spoke brave 
and great words for her disenthrallment and for her peace. 

Mr. Speaker, it was not my fortune to have known Senator 
Bogy intimately. When I came here to take my seat among the 
humblest of the members of the Forty-fourth Congress I met him 
and had that casual acquaintance with him which the members of 



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74 ADDRESS OF MR. ELLIS ON THE 

the respective branches of Congress often have where no particular 
business interests qr social opportunities bring them together closely. 
It was not until the unpleasant prominence into which my State 
was forced by her peculiar relations to the electoral count and to all 
the exciting questions growing out of the last Presidential election, 
and when Senator Bogy appealed to me for some knowledge of her 
laws and statutes that I knew him well. 

Afterward a measure of great importance to the entire Missis- 
sippi Valley drew us together, and it was then that I learned to 
measure him and to appreciate him. As briefly as I can, Mr. 
Speaker, I propose to utter now my estimation of him. As a man 
I found him frank, brave, and truthful. He was brave enough to 
stand alone when he believed he was right. When his convic- 
tions and his judgments combined told him that he was right he 
never counted friends, neither did he number his opposing foes. 

I found him ever honest. I discovered that perhaps from his 
origin and because of the stirring pioneer scenes and associations of 
his early life, there was in him that rugged honesty which never 
would bend to the suple requirements of this late day. I saw, too, 
the grand and salient features of that Spartan integrity which never 
could be effaced or toned down from their original proportions. 

Born of French ancestry he was ardent, impulsive, warm-hearted, 
and enthusiastic; quick to resent an injury, and yet ever ready to 
forgive when the amende was made. I found him always ready to 
extend the hand of friendship and kindness to the younger members 
of this House who gathered about him, and I was indebted to him 
more than once for much of friendly counsel and advice with 
regard to my own course. 

The virtues of Senator Bogy, as son, as husband, and as father, 
have been spoken of here. There is one noble and beautiful trait 



LIFE AND CHARACTER OF LEWIS V. BOGY. 75 

of his character which it is well for us all to recall and to remem- 
ber ; that which was so eloquently and beautifully alluded to by my 
friend from North Carolina, [Mr. Waddell,] who has already 
spoken. It was his love for his mother. Mr. Speaker, it too often 
happens that we, especially when fortune and fame smile upon us, 
are apt to forget her who gave us birth, or to think lightly and 
carelessly of that beautiful dream of our childhood; to be unmindful 
of that love which follows us everywhere, which smiles when we 
smile, which weeps when we weep, which comes to us when sorrow, 
misfortune, even when guilt or shame may overtake us ; which 
wraps us in the immortal mantle of her affection, seeing only her 
child, refusing to believe the appearance or even the proof of guilt. 
Or if we do not forget, we remember only when the world has 
grown so dark and life so weary, when there come memories of 
misspent hours, of wasted time, of neglected opportunities, when 
innocence and youth seems so far away. In those weary times it 
is that we call out to her even as we do to God ; that we would 
bring back this beautiful vision of our childhood, that we would 
woo her from the shadowy past ; that we confess to her how weary 
we are of "sowing that others may reap," of "flinging away our 
soul's wealth," and ask her to take us back to her breast and make 
us all young and loving and innocent again. 

Senator Bogy never forgot his mother. He kept his promise to 
her; he realized the pledge of his boyhood, and laid at her feet his 
commission as United States Senator. To him maternal love was 
a steady lamp that shone all through his life and was a guide to his 
footsteps. To him it was a hallowed memory that kept his heart 
ever fresh, warm, and pure. His devotion to his child has already 
been spoken of. It is said by those who knew him well that the 
first sign of his decay in himself occurred after the death of his 



76 ADDRESS OF MR. ELLIS ON THE 

beloved daughter. Like a careful gardener who has seen some 
beautiful plant grow up beneath his care, has noted its petals open 
and unfold into beautiful maturity, and when it dies he almost 
wishes to die with it; and in its decay takes prophetic premonition 
of his own approaching end ; or like some vine that has clung so 
closely about the trunk of the oak until the two lives arc absolutely 
intermingled and interwoven, when torn rudely and violently away 
it leaves its parent-tree a prey to enemies that turn its strength to 
decay and wither all its glories. So, when the rude hand of death 
tore his child away from Senator Bogy's heart, it sent its own fatal 
chill to the fountain of that great and noble life. 

As a legislator Senator Bogy was a man of large, liberal, and 
enlightened views. Particularly was he devoted to the interests of 
the great Mississippi Valley. Surely never did the heart of Israel's 
prophet kindle at the thought of that Jordan-watered land which 
had been given by God to him and his children, as a heritage to 
them forever, more than did the heart of Senator Bogy kindle at 
the splendid possibilities of that fertile land whose ribs form the 
water-sheds of continents, whose chief life-vein is that rushing 
inland Mississippi sea, whose blood valves are lakes with voice and 
expanse like oceans ; whose soil is the breast from which the famished 
nations of the world can gather and draw sustenance. It was to 
the interests of this valley, to the splendid possibilities of that i)or- 
tion of our land that his heart ever turned with delight. Particu- 
larly do I remember how he noted cai'sfully the progress made in 
the improvements at the mouth of the great river. 

I well recall me now with what enthusiasm he talked of the day 
when, beneath the genius of Eads, the water of that mighty stream 
should cut the last shackle that binds the imperial AVest and the 
majestic South to the car-wheels of insolent monopoly, and free 



LIFE AND CIIARACTEK OP LEWIS V. BOGY. 77 

them; when the great brown- winged and black-breasted birds of 
commerce, no matter how heavily laden, might, from ocean's rugged 
breast to river's peaceful bosom, come and go, and furl their storm- 
bronzed wings by the wharves of the great cities that margin the 
border of the stream. 

How vividly also do I recall his tireless endeavor for the develop- 
ment of our commercial resources. He properly divined the cause 
of the stagnation of business. He saw with true and just eye why 
it was that furnace-fires were dying; why it was that industry's 
strong arm was falling in helpless paralysis, and why, in this land 
of plenty, there was a cry for bread and labor. He knew that it 
was the overstimulated productive powers of the country and the 
inadequate commercial circulation ; and he knew that we must have 
a market for our surplus products or that stagnation and paralysis 
would still continue. Therefore he was very urgent in his advocacy 
of a line of steamers to Brazil ; and he spoke to me of the shame 
which should mantle the brow of every American that the American 
flag was almost unknown in the balmy winds of those tropic seas 
and that the commerce of that rich South American country should 
be gathered by people who live so far away that the sun never shines 
on both lands at once, while we, basking in the same sun-bath with 
those South American states, had no commerce with them and were 
almost excluded from their ports. It was due to his energy and his 
tireless perseverance that that measure passed the Senate. And 
though that measure suffered strangulation in the close grip of this 
economical House, yet none the less credit is due to the tireless 
energy, patience, and statesmanlike foresight of Senator Bogy in 
urging this measure. 

Mr. Speaker, his friends do not claim for him that he was a great 
orator, yet I remember that once when assailed in the Senate of the 



78 ADDRESS OF MR. ELLIS ON TUB 

United States he spoke with energy, with truth, with earnestness, 
with that flash of eye and ring of voice and that enthusiasm of 
manner which then lifted him almost to the heights of sublime 
eloquence. Nor do I claim for him that lie was one of those Vul- 
cans, the sturdy ring of whose strokes is heard adown the centuries, 
beating out great thoughts and great principles. The demands of 
these times are rather for the earnest, plodding man of detail, the 
industrious man of detail and of labor, than for the man of daz- 
zling genius. It is harder to be a giant than it was in the days 
agone. Owen Meredith, in Lucille, has very beautifully and truth- 
fully said : 

The dwarf on the dead giant's shoulders sees more 
Than the live giant's eye-sight availed to explore. 

The rapid transit of news and intelligence, the easy commingling 
of remote people, the teeming printing-press, the thousands of books, 
and the easy acquisition of knowledge have raised the masses. The 
level of the people is higher and it is more difficult for your giant 
to appear above the mass than in former days. The demand of 
these times, as I have said, is for the man of labor, the man of detail, 
the man of care, the man of method, the man close enough to his 
people to see their wants and necessities and with the tireless energy 
to supply those wants and necessities. Senator Bogy was that kind 
of man; and if he filled full well the measure of his life, if his 
strength was as his days demanded, then what prouder tribute could 
be paid to the greatest man in the annals of the race? 

The gifted and tender Dickens, above the grave of a young and 
lovely being, whose life was all a God-written poem, has said : 

When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from 
which he sets the panting spirit free, a thousand virtues rise in shapes of mercy, 
love, and truth to walk the earth and bless it. Of every tear that surviving mortals 
shed o'er such green graves some good is born, some guileless nature comes. In tho 
destroyer's pathway there spring up bright creatures that defy his power, and his 
dark pathway becomes a way of light to heaven. 



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The thought is a very beautiful one ; and if we may extend the 
spirit of the thought, then, indeed, will not from this grave of Sena- 
tor Bogy arise splendid forms of integrity, impulses of honesty and 
of truth, of nobility of character that shall be felt by the generations 
that are to follow? Though dead, will he not speak to the people 
who are to come after him? 

There is one sweet thought for his friends. About his grave may 
gather with unfeigned regret (every bitterness vanished, every par- 
tisan feeling gone) men of every race, men of every shade of political 
opinion, men of all political parties. Mr. Speaker, if he gave hard 
blows they were always in defense of the Constitution of his coun- 
try or of the weak and the oppressed. No plundered commonwealth 
stands above his grave to-day with burning memories and with 
bitter tears feeling how great the burden of that charity which bids 
them be silent and forbids the impulse to crown his grave with the 
immortelles of abiding hate. No, no ; above Senator Bogy's grave 
there lives no bitter thought or memory. 

Mr. Speaker, let us endeavor to emulate his virtue ; let us endeavor 
to so live that we may hear the call of the Great Reaper even as he 
heard it, calling us away to the spirit land, and that we may go as 
he did, "not like the quarry slave, scourged to his dungeon," but 
rather — 

Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch 
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. 



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Address of Mr. Rea, of Missouri. 

Mr. Speaker: The services of this hour furnish material for 
solemn reflection. 

The nation's Kepresentatives in this Hall to-day render just 
tribute to the memory of Lewis Vital Bogy, late a Senator 
from the State of Missouri. 

He died at his residence in the city of Saint Louis on the 20th 
day of September, 1877, in the sixty-fifth year of his age. 

He was born on the 9 th day of April, 1813, in Sainte Genevieve, 
now Sainte Genevieve County, in the State of Missouri, and was 
of French descent. His opportunities in early life for the acqui- 
sition of an education were meager, but he industriously availed 
himself of such means of education as the schools in that new coun- 
try afforded. 

He read law in the office of the late Nathaniel Pope, judge of the 
United States district court, and afterward became a student in the 
law school at Lexington, Kentucky, where he graduated in 1835. 
Soon after he had graduated, he opened an office in Saint Louis and 
entered upon the practice of law with success. 

He held a number of positions of honor and trust in his city and 
State, and also under the Federal Government prior to his election 
to the Senate of the United States in 1873, all of whicli he filled 
with honor to himself and his country. It is said of him that more 
than forty years before he was elected Senator he formed the deter- 
mination to qualify liimself for the Senate and to work for that end 
until he arrived at the age of sixty years if necessary to obtain the 
coveted position. This was a laudable and honorable ambition, and 
amidst all the vicissitudes and uncertainties of this life he lived to 
gratify that ambition. 



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Although I lived in the same State with the deceased for about 
one-third of a century I did not form his personal acquaintance 
until in the month of February, 1875, when I met hrin in this city. 
During the Forty-fourth Congress, while I was a member of this 
House and he a member of the Senate, he and I became well and 
intimately acquainted. I often during that time visited his rooms, 
and always found him agreeable and courteous. The more I be- 
came acquainted with him the more I appreciated his qualities of 
head and heart. 

I believe he was a patriot and sincerely desired the peace and 
prosperity of the people, not only of his own State, but of the whole 
Union. He took a deep interest in public questions and had an 
opinion upon almost every question. 

In my judgment he was conservative in his political views and 
was deeply impressed with the necessity of peace and a full resto- 
ration of confidence and good- will between the people of the North 
and South, under the Constitution and laws, and believed that 
pacific measures were best calculated to promote the desired end. 

He was a man of more than ordinary ability, with strong convic- 
tions, and was ever quick and ready to defend and maintain those 
convictions ; always bold, but courteous in debate. 

Mr. Speaker, we are reminded upon this occasion of the uncer- 
tainty of life and the certainty of death; of the truth of the inspired 
words, "it is appointed unto men once to die." To this proposition 
the minds of all yield a willing assent ; there is no dispute as to its 
truth. 

The graves of countless millions who have passed beyond the 
river of life into the valley of death, and the evidences of decay 
among the living, of those laboring under disease and old age, all 
verify the universally accepted truth that all men must die. 



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The path of life is strewn with innumerable dangers all along 
its wending way. The enemies and destroyers of human life arc 
countless, and are concealed in secret ambush all along the journey 
of life from the cradle to the grave, ever ready to seize upon their 
victims. 

When we contemplate the innumerable dangers to which our 
lives have been subjected as we journeyed along, we are terror- 
stricken and wonder that we are still living. How many hair- 
breadth escapes has each one of us undergone ! Each one can recall 
many incidents of danger to his life, but it is doubtless true that 
the life of every individual has been exposed to an innumerable 
number of dangers that were and are unknown. We are ready 
to exclaim that in the midst of life we are in death. Death and 
decay are all around us. 

The living should contemplate the shortness of human life. 
When they do so they will be admonished that there is no time 
to be wasted in idleness or in doing that which is worse. Com- 
pare the duration of the life of man with the duration of time as 
known to the human mind by and through the agencies of 
history and science, and how infinitesimal it becomes. In an 
eifort to compare the duration of human life with the bound- 
less and illimitable eternity, the human mind is lost in incompre- 
hensibility. 

Oh, how little time there is for man to work. How short the 
time in this life for the growth of the human mind and the acqui- 
sition of knowledge and wisdom. How short the time for doing 
good. There is no time for doing evil without irreparable loss. 
These is no time for idleness and inattention. We are admonished 
to " work while it is day, for the night cometh when no man can 
work." In the terse language of Prentiss: 



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There is no appeal for relief from the great law which dooms us to the dust ; we 
flourish and fade as the leaves of the forest, and the leaves that bloom and wither 
in a day have no frailer hold upon life than the mightiest monarch that ever shook 
the earth with his footsteps. Generations of men will appear and disappear as the 
grass, and the naultitude that throngs the world to-day will disappear as the foot- 
steps on the shore. Men seldom tJiink of the great event of death until the shadows 
fall across their own pathway, hiding from their eyes the faces of loved ones whose 
loving smile was the sunlight of their existence. Death is the antagonist of life, 
and the cold thought of the tomb is the skeleton of all feasts. We do not want to go 
through the dark valley, although its dark passage may lead to paradise; we do not 
want to lie down in the damp grave, even with princes as bed-fellows. 

In the beautiful language of the poet: 

Our lives are rivers, gliding free 
To that unfathomed, boundless sea. 

The silent grave. 
Thither all earthly pomp and boast 
Roll, to be swallowed up and lost 

In one dark wave. 

Mr. Speaker, Lewis Vital Bogy is dead. His voice will be 
heard no more in the other end of this Capitol, neither will his 
voice again be heard in the social circle, nor in the place most sacred 
to all the good, the family circle. His lips are sealed in death. His 
body sleeps in Calvary Cemetery, in the suburbs of the city of 
Saint Louis. The people of my beloved State mourn his loss. 
Peace be to his spirit. 



Address of Mr. Crittenden, of Missouri. 

Mr. Speaker: Death has invaded the Senate of the United 
States in two notable instances since the last Congress adjourned. 
Indiana and Missouri have deeply felt the intrusion, and in their 
common sorrow have been drawn together as loving mothers to 
mourn the death of their honored Senators. Death is a common 
leveler of all. It enters the palace of the rich and the hovel of the 



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poor with the same indifferent step and the loved ones of such fade 
away under its touch into the dust of the valley. Senators and 
statesmen upon whose words millions have hung with eager ears in 
their fierce forensic combats for fame, for policies, and power, are 
as unable to resist its mandates as the babe that sleeps in its weak- 
ness upon its mother's bosom. It is the most successful conqueror 
of all. It awaits the triumph of earth's greatest leaders until the 
applause of mankind has made its hero drunken with praise, and 
then by its touch it scatters the weak ones and makes the great and 
the strong waste away as the morning dew. No mortal was nor 
will ever be beyond its reach. As the first man, so must the last 
be obedient to its jurisdiction. Whenever it appears in this Hall 
or elsewhere, how deeply hushed is the voice of anger, how still is 
the pen of censure! 

This is a beautiful trait in human nature. All are willing that 
the evils done in this life shall be buried in the grave of the dece- 
dent, and his virtues only be left to bloom and blossom over the 
paths of the living. These two Senators had their faults like man- 
kind in general, were full of the frailties of human nature, yet 
they each possessed many eminent virtues. In battle they were the 
fiercest warriors ; in moments of truce they were as calm and gentle 
toward each other as men of force and gallantry always are. They 
stood as resolute and uncompromising leaders in the Senate only a 
few months ago, contending like giants for the great stake of the 
Presidency, giving and receiving blows that shook our country from 
verge to center, and almost caused — 

Red battle to stamp her foot and nations feci the shock, 

each in all probability incurring the fatal disease in the struggle. 
And yet, when the controversy was over and the victory won, in 
the contest of words and law rather than in blood and pain, both 



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retired from the scene, that grand gaudia certaminis, wearied and 
worn, never to return again. They were friends when in the Sen- 
ate, and greater friends upon their death-beds. The one was con- 
fined during his last illness at Richmond, Indiana, and the other at 
Saint Louis, Missouri. Each was daily inquisitive about the con- 
dition of the other, and as each grew worse words of comfort and 
confidence passed by mail and by wire from one to the other. Gov- 
ernor Morton's last telegram to Senator Bogy was received a few 
moments after the latter had died, and when so advised, he was 
deeply affected and murmured a short prayer for his peaceful rest. 
Missouri, in the presence of her dead Senator, tenders to Indiana 
her words of grief and sorrow, and here renews the hope that the 
elevated friendship that existed between their Senators in life, and 
so beautifully closed with their deaths, should be but the commence- 
ment of a broader and deeper friendship between the peoples of 
these two great Western States, so grandly situated for agricultural 
and commercial purposes, and which are already bound together by 
so many ties of blood, interest, and commerce. 

Governor Morton was the extraordinary man of this age. He 
never followed in anything; always led with surpassing ability and 
boldness. His great State will rally around his name as Kentucky 
does around that of Mr. Clay. When in battle of words, he hit 
hard liclcs, as such battles with him meant war and war meant 
blood. In the social circle he was as kind and gentle as a woman, 
always pleasing, never provoking. Although directing millions of 
money he never polluted his fingers with one dollar that did not 
belong to him. He had great faults, he had great virtues. Peace 
to Oliver P. Morton! 

Indiana and Missouri are two great factors in national supremacy, 
located as they are in the center of an immense empire. As the 



86 ADDRESS OF MR. CRITTENDEN ON THE 

streams of each mingle together at last in one grand river and are 
forever lost in that one, diversified although they may once have 
been in their native States, so may our struggles, our hopes, our 
interests, at last be centered in our national greatness, and all be 
richly consummated in a "Union, one and inseparable, now and 
forever." Castellar, that man of genius and humanity, said in a 
letter of condolence to Madame Thiers, after the death of her world- 
renowned husband : 

France loses her first statesman, Uberty her most prudent defender, the republic 
its recognized leader, Europe a glorious name which holds a foremost title on the 
continent, humanity one of its lights which by their brightness paled the stars of 
heaven, less luminous than great souls. 

This is the language of human apotheosis unfitted to our age, our 
people, our country. Yet to-day, over the freshly-made graves of 
the deceased Senators, there are followers of each who are willing 
to reiterate the same language about their deceased leaders. It may 
be the sentimentalism of love, to a certain extent, from bruised 
hearts and lacerated feelings poured forth in words of praise in their 
moments of sorrow. Yet it is not manly to condemn such admira- 
tion, as it is the noblest sentiment of human nature that survives 
the fall. It is natural to love our dead, whether our own blood, 
our kindred, or our leaders. Men differed as to the honesty, saga- 
city, and ability of each of those Senators, and in moments of ex- 
citement severely criticised their public and private acts; but as 
they have been gathered to their reward, where mistakes are never 
made, judgments never reversed, we should bid them live forever 
unvexed and unwearied by the song of praise or the criminations 
of language. They are beyond the reach of either. 

Can storied urn or animated bust, 
Bacli to its mansion call the fleeting breath? 

Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust. 
Or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death? 



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The praises of the dead never fret the living. So with each no 
words of contention will be provoked. The verge of the grave 
should ever be the limit of severe criticism. When God's voice is 
heard man's should be stilled. 

Senator Bogy died at his residence in Saint Louis on the 20th 
day of September, 1877, in full possession of his mental faculties, 
surrounded by his family, his friends, and his church, that great 
ministering angel which stands to-day and has for eighteen centu- 
ries stood at the bedside of the living and the dying on every con- 
tinent, under every sun, ever pointing in solemn majesty to Him 
who is the resurrection and the life. Senator Bogy was well known 
in Missouri, was greatly respected in every part of it. He was born 
in Sainte Genevieve, Missouri, on the 9th day of April, 1813, in 
the midst of the most cultivated part of the then Territory of Mis- 
souri. His advantages for education at that early day, in that 
sparsely-settled part of the country were limited. He availed 
himself of the best school within his reach and means, a Catholic 
school at Perryville, Missouri, and soon by his energy and ability 
became one of the best scholars in that unpretentious school. At 
the age of fourteen he became a victim to white-swelling in his 
right leg, which so completely prostrated him for eighteen months 
that he was unable to leave his bed. 

It was during those long, painful months that he filled his mind 
with those rich stores of history, legend, and song which ever after- 
ward made him the autocrat in the social circle, at the bar, in the 
forum, in the Senate. His attending physician during his illness 
was Dr. Lewis F. Linn, an accomplished gentleman, and surgeon, 
who afterward became United States Senator from Missouri. Dr. 
Linn, discovering in his suffering patient a boy of rare promise, of 
strong mind, of graceful manners, of sweet voice, of genial disposi- 



tion, of ambitious hopes, at once advised him to study law. He 
consulted his parents about the important step, and they, acquiesc- 
ing in the proposition, sent him with an old family friend, William 
Shannon, to Kaskaskia, Illinois, to pursue the study with Nathaniel 
Pope, then judge of the United States district court and possessing 
the best law and miscellaneous library in that section of the country. 
Young Bogy, without undue pride, properly measuring his own 
inherent powers and feeling the deep impulses of his own aspira- 
tions to make a man worthy of the hopes of his parents and friends, 
wrote and sent to his mother the following letter, so significant, so 
plain, so worthy of imitation by the young men of our land : 

Ste. Genevieve, January 16, 1S32. 
On this day I left home under charge of Mr. William Shannon, an old friend of 
my father, to go to Kaskaskia to read law in the office of Judge Pope. My education 
is limited, but with hard study I may overcome it. I am determined to try ; and 
my intention is to return to my native State to practice law if I can qualify myself, 
and, while doing so to woi'k to become United States Senator for my native State 
and to work for this until I am sixty years old. I will pray God to give me the resolu- 
tion to persevere in this intention. I have communicated this to my mother and 
given her this paper to keep, so help me God. 

LEWIS V. BOGY. 

This is but another instance of what determination and applica- 
tion can do. No boy, in this or any age, ever determined with a 
bold and tireless resolution to accomplish any fact, reach any point, 
attain any position in life, that it was not done. The resolution 
must not be a feeble one, the licks struck must not be feeble ones, 
such as bend pins or crush straws, but must be that faith that re- 
moves mountains, the resolution that surmounts all obstacles, the 
blows that weld great pieces of iron together, the will that says 
there is no such word as " fail." Who but a mother, sweet blessed 
mother, would have preserved for so many long years that little 
parcel of paper, written in a boyish hand, inspired by a boyish 
dream, so worthless then, so valuable after its fulfillment ? Others 
would have thrown it aside as the dreamings of a visionary boy, 



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but that mother laid it away, embalmed in her sacred tears, with a 
mother's prayers, with a mother's hopes. How often are a mother's 
hopes, a mother's tears the premonition "of coming events." 

Mrs. Bogy died before the son commenced his upward career, be- 
fore he became "United States Senator for his native State." No 
man ever had truer, bolder, wiser friends anywhere than Senator 
Bogy had in Southeast Missouri, and those people never had a truer, 
nobler, wiser defender than Senator Bogy. Such friendship, such 
fidelity is worthy of the people, is worthy of their leader. They made 
the boy a Senator and he made himself an eloquent defender of 
them. People as well as occasions make some men great, in fact, 
create men for great purposes. The enthusiasm of the French made 
Napoleon great, and he in return made France great by reason of 
that enthusiasm. If Senator Bogy was not possessed of a national 
reputation when elected Senator from his native State, he was 
familiarly known all over the State, he had served in the Legisla- 
ture of Missouri, and was the equal and peer of such men as Blair, 
Rollins, Doniphan, and Hall, as brave, eloquent, and able men as 
ever graced the forum of any State. 

Early imbibing whig doctrines from such leaders as Clay, "Web- 
ster, Clayton, and Ewing, he was ever ready to defend all legitimate 
schemes of internal and foreign commerce, and to him we in Missouri 
owe much gratitude for the advanced position of our railroad and 
manufacturing systems, for he believed, as far back as 1832, that 
" Missouri was destined to become the leading Commonwealth of the 
Union." He had great and abiding faith in Missouri, her external 
and internal wealth, her immense capacities and possibilities, and 
had not the evils of unwise financial legislation rested so heavily 
upon her his brightest anticipations would have been realized in his 
lifetime. He loved his native State with childish idolatry, and 



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would resent any reflection upon its capacity or honor, its intelligence 
and its morality. When a law student at Lexington, Kentucky, in 
1834, a New England minister who had been traveling through Indi- 
ana, Illinois, and Missouri delivered a lecture on the "Far West" at 
Lexington, and spoke disparagingly of Saint Louis, "its commerce 
and business," of its religion and morality, of the abandoned character 
of the Jews, French, and Catholic church. Mr. Bogy, then only 
about twenty years old, was in the audience, which was large and 
intelligent. He listened to the lecturer with some patience until he 
animadverted upon the women of his State with unbecoming severity, 
which so aroused the fiery zeal of his nature that he jumped from his 
seat and in a loud voice exclaimed, " Now, stop, sir ! I pronounce 
what you say about Saint Louis and its people an absolute falsehood." 

There was great consternation. The minister was staggered. He paused some 
time and then expressed a hope that he would not meet again with such a rude 
and unwonted interruption. Mr. Bogy's friends tried to quiet him, but be got up 
again and said, "As long as you only slandered men I could stand it, but when you 
speak of my countrywomen in the way you did I had to rebuke you and shall do so 
again if you dare to insult them again." There was a distinct murmur of applause 
in the audience, and the minister brought his lecture to a rather premature close. 

It was the spirit of the man developed in the boy at that early age. 
It exhibited itself in every phase of his life, whether in the school- 
room, at the bar, in the Legislature, or in the Senate of the United 
States. No clearer sentences ever rang out upon the ear of the Sen- 
ate than when, in a moment of great national excitement, he said : 

Sir, the names of Jeffreys and Norbury have come down to us in English history 
for ages past, covered with disgrace and shame because they were corrupt judges; 
and the name of that man who changed his vote upon that commission so as to 
change the votes of Florida from Tilden to Hayes [Justice Bradley] will go down to 
after ages covered with equal shame and disgrace. His name will be associated 
with Norbury and Jeffreys, linked together by a chain of infamy, and never will it 
be pronounced without a hiss from all good men in this country. 

As to the policy or impolicy of the utterance I have nothing to 
say at this time. I only use it as an illustration of his boldness 
and fearlessness when he believed a great wrong was being done. 



LIFE AND CHARACTER OF LEWIS V. BOGY. 91 



Senator Bogy was a man of enlarged views ; nothing small or 
illiberal about him; never looking for motes or blemishes in the 
character of any man, never questioning the character of any one 
without cause; never making unbecoming remarks about ladies, ever 
treating them with knightly courtesy and unsuspecting confidence ; 
as gentle and kind to children as a mother, and always ready to view 
human nature with a half closed eye, and was ever more ready to 
defend than to prosecute, to justify than to vilify; had but little 
patience with a man claiming to be without faults, without regrets, 
for he said no man could be good without having feelings of regret 
every day of his life because of some inconsiderate expression, some 
rash act. He possessed an unusually well balanced mind and 
temper ; seldom irritated or irritable, always bright and cheerful at 
his own fireside and in the social circle, believing, as I have often 
heard him say, that life was too short for a man to make himself or 
others miserable by harsh remarks and vulgar passions; although a 
warm partisan, ever ready to defend his political and religious creeds 
with chivalrous alacrity, yet his urbanity and earnestness were so 
distinguished as to secure even the respect of his opponents. He 
had few enemies anywhere, many friends everywhere. His life was 
full of sweetness at home and abroad, ever marking him as a prince 
and a gentleman, a patriot and a Christian, a statesman and a 
Senator; never, even in the last days of his life, when misfortunes 
gathered fast and thick around him, when the sharpened pains of 
the fatal disease were less than the pangs of a troubled mind, for- 
getting that he was a gentleman and a Senator. Such a man 
cannot be unmade, cannot be broken down. 

Not all the water in the rough rude sea 
Can wash the balm from an anointed king. 

His life was a model one, worthy of severe imitation by the old 



92 ADDRESS OF MR. CRITTENDEN ON THE 

as well as the young, and his memory should long be treasured in 
our own great State. His life may not have been as resplendent 
with some one marked deed, some one noted charity, some one bril- 
liant speech as often gave great reputation to some men ; but it was 
filled all the way from manhood to the grave with thousands of 
noble deeds, thousands of heaven-recognized charities, and countless 
speeches of the sweetest purity and happiest results. He has left 
his impress on society, that will long survive hira and be a rich 
heritage to his children. 

Mr. Speaker, noble deeds will be reported, distinguished services 
will be remembered, the works of good men follow them. Some 
one has uttered the golden thought that — 

The planet, the pebble, goes attended by its shadow. The rolling rock leaves its 
track upon the mountain, the river its channel in the soil, the animal its bones in 
the stratum, the fern and the leaf its modest epitaph in the coal. The falling drop 
makes its scpulcher in the sand or stone; not a foot steps in the snow or along the 
ground but prints in characters more or less lasting a map of its march, and every 
act of the man inscribes itself in the memories of its fellows. The air is full of 
sounds, the sk5' of tokens, the ground is all memoranda and signatures, and every 
object is covered over with hints which speak to the intelligent. 

Senator Bogy as a Senator never forgot that he was once an 
unknown school-teacher in the mountains of Kentucky; and the 
lessons he then learned made him in after-life, when the applause 
of listening Senators honored his career, considerate of and kind to 
young men struggling against the decrees of adversity. He never 
forgot that he was once poor, once unknown, once " without a local 
habitation or a name." Vulgar minds, vulgar natures, only do. 
Beshal Hall once said : 

Sweet the destiny of all trades, whether of the plow or the mind. Men who have 
raised themselves from a humble calling need not be ashamed, but rather ought to 
be proud, because of the difliculties they have surmounted. The laborer on his feet 
stands higher than the king on his knees. 

Senator Bogy understood and appreciated such a sentiment. He 



LIFE AND CHARACTER OF LEWIS V. BOGY. 93 

was eminently a self-made man ; and such are the practical men of 
life. They have trodden the up^vard paths of life by the light of 
daily experience. No other cloud by day or pillar of fire by night 
as their guide. Missouri has had and still has many men of supe- 
rior ability to Senator Bogy, of greater brilliance ; men capable of 
greater thoughts, of greater conceptions, of closer reasoning powers, 
of more logical acumen ; men more dashing, who would secure the 
outer works of an opponent before Senator Bogy would move his 
forces ; but when all the qualities are measured that enter into the 
man, that form the man, those enduring elements which take a 
soldier to the inner works, with head erect and arm unstrung, then 
few indeed are found who surpassed him. 

He could always be relied on, as a man, as a lawyer, as a poli- 
tician, as a statesman. The mind alone does not make the man; if 
so, BacoUp whom the poet described as the wisest, meanest, basest of 
mankind, was a great man, in the full acceptation of that term, for 
his great mental powers were overshadowed by his great immoral 
qualities. A great man is not only great in his thoughts, but in all 
he does, in all his deeds, in all his actions, his mind being ever free 
from small conceptions and smaller executions, always seeking the 
elevation of society, of the state, of the country. Measured by this 
rule. Senator Bogy was no common man, and the longer we are 
removed from him the greater will be our appreciation of that fact. 
At the time of his death Senator Bogy was rapidly assuming an 
elevated position in the Senate. The slow hand of Time and Justice 
was removing without leaving a blemish or a stain the evil surmises 
that his enemies had scattered broadcast over the country. At the 
time he entered the Senate and to-day there is no man of repute 
who will say aught against the public or private character of Lewis 
V. Bogy. His honesty and veracity stand as impervious to slan- 



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derous attocks to-day as his own clicrished Iron ]\luuntain stands 
unshaken by the morning breeze or the evening zephyr. 

The cemeteries of Saint Louis contain many ilhistrious dead: 
Benton, the great Senator, Geyer, Bates, Paschal 1, Blair, Polk, 
Green, and Bogy, all sleep that long sleep in almost adjacent graves. 
Few graveyards contain so many distinguished dead. They were 
all great men, "immortal names that were not born to die." They 
have shed a halo of glory over the State of Missouri, and it is per- 
missible for us from that State to bow around their graves with 
Christian love. Their memories are our idols, our household gods, 
cherished and loved, where we go they are taken, where we rest 
they are elevated. Such dead are an honor to any State, to any 
people. Missouri can point to them as her jewels as the mother of 
the Gracchi pointed to her sons as hers. May the brightest flowers 
of spring bloom perennially over their graves. " To-day," as has 
been beautifully said, " they are with the shadows. The race from 
which they sprung will never come again to this world. A wiser 
one may succeed to it, but never a purer, braver, stronger, and more 
patriotic." Great men's deeds should be incentives to be great men. 
The world is full of great men if the world only knew it. There 
is always a great leader for every great event, a Washington for 
every great revolution, a Clay for every great compromise. Great 
men have occupied seats in this House and the Senate and have 
died, and men equally as great do occupy their places, and the legis- 
lation moves on as of yore. It is well for us to mourn over our 
dead statesmen who have left us the rich heritage of liberty to pre- 
serve "safe against the tooth of time and razure of oblivion," and 
to perpetuate their memories in stainless marble and burnished 
brass; but at the same time we should remember that they had their 
faults — deep, broad, glaring faults — which should be avoided with 



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the same resolution that prompts us to imitate their virtues. Word 
paintings do not make the dead perfect or imperfect. Their acts 
and thoughts have made their characters. " As the tree falls so it 
must lie." These occasions should teach the living that the great 
lesson of life, after all, is so to live in this world that when we are 
called hence "into the dark valley, with its weird and solemn 
shadows," we go with an unfaltering step, with the response, adsum, 
glowing upon our lips, believing that death is but the beginning of 
a destiny good or evil, that we have created for ourselves in the 
years gone by. If the tree is corrupt so will be the fruit when the 
bloom is gone; if bright and beautiful, so will be the production. 
Such men as Bogy and Morton are always missed when they 
die, always create a vacancy when they fall, as does the strong oak 
when removed from its native forest by the hand of the woodman. 
It takes time, much time to fill the place. How greatly has the 
Senate changed in the last four years. To study that change makes 
the hardest of us exclaim, "in the midst of life we are in death." 
How sadly, how eloquently Old Time's mutations are portrayed in 
this article, taken from one of the leading newspapers of the day : 

TIME'S CHANGES IN THE SENATE. 

[ From the Cincinnati Enquirer.] 

After an interregnum of seventeen years tlie Senate is now full. There have 
been great changes since the Senate met in December, 1860. The Government runs 
on and on, while the grave takes the governors. To the man familiar with the 
Senate of that day, the changes death has made in the body that itself never dies 
have a melancholy interest. Of those who were then Senators but two are Senators 
to-day : Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine, and Henry B. Anthony, of Rhode Island. Not- 
withstanding the long term of the Senator who serves for six years and the ten- 
dency to re-elect, of the seventy-six Senators to-day but two were Senators less than 
three times six years ago. Pitt Fessenden was in the Senate then, grim, keen, com- 
manding, but misanthropic, seeming to have a spite against mankind because of 
the bitter love-accident to his birth that sprung from the nature of mankind. Fes- 
senden is dead. John P. Hale was there, brave, eloquent, witty, able to state his 
case with unsurpassed force and clearness. Hale is dead. Henry Wilson was there, 
politic, tireless, ambitious, making more of his native talents than almost any man 
in our history ; and Wilson is dead. Sumner was there, the student of the Senate, 
the man who alone in the Senate was able to summon all history and all literature 



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to prove his point. Massive in his vanity, isolated in his tastes and life; and Sum- 
ner is dead. William Henry Seward was there, who had been for ten years the idol 
of a great following and was the statesman of his party in 1860. Seward is dead. 
Stephen A. Douglas was there, his democracy pure and simple, and, running through 
the warp and woof of liis nature, his loyalty to the Union, so deep-seated that not even 
disappointed ambition, always a destroyer of the best things in men, could shake it. 
" I am ready to act with any party, with any individual of any party, who will come 
to this question with an eye single to the preservation of the Constitution and the 
Union," said Douglas, in those tryiiig hours. Douglas is dead. Andrew Johnson 
was there, his voice of the bravest; and Andrew Johnson is gone. George E. Pugh 
was there, fresh from the laurels of Charleston, that shinll tenor tone ringing like a 
silvery bell through the Senate Chamber, clinging to the Union and to peace with 
tenacity, but to his belief with deflance. And that brilliant man sleeps. Jeflferson 
Davis was there, saying, " If I could see any means by which I could avert the catas- 
trophe of a struggle between the sections of the Union, my past life, I hope, gives 
evidence of the readiness with which I would make the effort. If, in the opinion of 
others, it be possible for me to do anything for the public good, the last moment 
while I stand here is at the command of the Senate. I will serve on the committee 
ifthe Senate choose." There were thirty-three States then. There were other shin- 
ing names in the list of Senators. There were names less lustrous that take place in 
our history. R. M. T. Hunter, Mason of Virginia, Robert Toombs, John J. Critten- 
den, Jesse D. Bright, Ben.- Wade, Lyman Trumbull, Yulee of Florida, Wigfall of 
Texas, Benjamin and Slidcll, and the others, were then Senators. The graves have 
opened, and events have shifted the leaders. Five States have been added to the 
Union since that time; ten Senators have been added to the Senate of those ante 
beUum days. The Senate never dies, but how changed it is. 

Are not these changes enough to make the living Senators of 
to-day wonder when death will make its next conscription? With 
these illustrious names there is one not mentioned, strange as it may 
seem — John 0. Breckinridge, of Kentucky, who was every inch a 
man and a Senator, and was " the glass of fashion and the mold of 
form" to the whole country. Who that has read his valedictory 
address, made January 4, 1859, upon the removal of the Senate 
from the old to the new Hall, can or will ever forget its lofty ideas 
and burning words ? He, too, has gone to his rest, and sleeps in 
the great bosom of Kentucky, with Clay and with Crittenden, 
with Rowan and with Underwood : 

Immortal names, 
That were not born to die. 

AVhenever the living cease to remember their dead, a death 
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